title: Results of routine testing of organic food for agro-chemical residues
creator: Lo, Ming
creator: Matthews, Dave
subject:  Food security, food quality and human health
subject:  Food systems
subject: Quality and evaluation of inputs
subject: Consumer issues
description: This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference. Consumers expect organic foods to be free of agro-chemical residues. Organix Brands plc. routinely test organic food ingredients for agrochemical residues using independent test laboratories. In the past year 243 batches of ingredients were tested and low levels of agro-chemical residues were found in 21% of samples. These residues can arise in organic food through environmental contamination, processing contamination or even the fraudulent use of agro-chemicals on organic food. Food containing agro-chemical residues can enter the organic system because of limitations in the organic rules
publisher: Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth
contributor: Powell, Jane
contributor: et al., 
date: 2002
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/8268/1/Lo_matthews_testing_agrochemical_residues.pdf
identifier: Lo, Ming and Matthews, Dave (2002) Results of routine testing of organic food for agro-chemical residues. UK Organic Research 2002 Conference, Aberystwyth, 26-28 March 2002. In: Powell, Jane and et al., (Eds.) Proceedings of the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference, Organic Centre Wales, Institute of Rural Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth, pp. 61-64.
relation: http://orgprints.org/8268/