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Guidance on ISO/IEC 17025 Schedule Presentation for Pesticides in Food

18 April 2017

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It is an ISO/IEC 17025 requirement that methods shall be validated in the matrices to be tested. In the case of pesticides in Feed, Food and Food products the general guidance is that validation should be in line with (or equivalent to) current SANTE Guidelines (at time of writing SANTE 11945/2015). This bulletin groups food items likely to be tested for pesticide residues into Commodity Groups and proposes validation by Group. Following requests from a small number of customers who have expressed a preference to have their pesticide schedule listings expressed in terms of the SANTE commodity groups the following is proposed: Where validation has been carried out in accordance with these groupings and the laboratory has specifically request listing on their accreditation schedules by Commodity Groups this can be accommodated but will incur an account management charge of up to 0.5 days to revise and re-issue the schedule in this format. Typical format for this would be to include as an annex to the schedule a table defining the Commodity Groups (current SANTE groupings as below): Vegetable and fruits, cereals and food of animal origin:

Commodity groups Typical commodity categories Typical representative commodities

• 1. High water content

Pome fruit Apples, pears Stone fruit Apricots, cherries, peaches Other fruit Bananas Alliums Onions, leeks Fruiting vegetables / cucurbits Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, melons Brassica vegetables Cauliflowers, Brussels- sprouts, cabbages, broccoli Leafy vegetables and fresh herbs Lettuce, spinach, basil Stem and stalk vegetables Celery, asparagus Forage / fodder crops Fresh alfalfa, fodder vetch, fresh sugar beets Fresh legume vegetables Fresh peas with pods, peas, mange tout, broad beans, runner beans, French beans

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Leaves of root and tuber vegetables Sugar beet and fodder beet tops Fresh Fungi Champignons, chanterelles Root and tuber vegetables or feed Sugar beet and fodder beet roots, carrots, Potatoes, sweet potatoes

• 2. High acid content and high

water content Citrus fruit Lemons, mandarins, tangerines, oranges Small fruit and berries Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, red currants, white currants, grapes Fruit pomace Citrus fruits

• 3. High sugar and low water

content Honey, dried fruit Honey, raisins, dried apricots, dried plums, fruit jams

• 4a. High oil content and very

low water content Tree nuts Walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts Oil seeds Oilseed rape, sunflower, cotton-seed, soybeans, peanuts, sesame etc. Pastes of tree nuts and oil seeds Peanut butter, tahina, hazelnut paste

• 4b. High oil content and

intermediate water content Oily fruits and products Olives, avocados and pastes thereof

• 5. High starch and/or protein

content and low water and fat content Dry legume vegetables/pulses Field beans, dried broad beans, dried haricot beans(yellow, white/navy, brown, speckled), lentils Cereal grain and products thereof Wheat, rye, barley and oat grains; maize, rice wholemeal bread, white bread, crackers, breakfast cereals, pasta Cereal grain products thereof, incl. cereal based composite feed

• 6. “Difficult or unique

commodities” Hops Cocoa beans and products thereof, coffee, tea Spices

• 7. Meat (muscle) and

Seafood Red muscle Beef, pork, lamb, game, horse White muscle Chicken, duck, turkey Offal Liver, kidney Fish Cod, haddock, salmon, trout

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• 8. Milk and milk products

Milk Cow, goat and buffalo milk Cheese Cow and goat cheese Dairy products Yogurt, cream

• 9. Eggs

Eggs Chicken, duck, quail and goose eggs

• 10. Fat from food of animal
• rigin

Fat from meat Kidney fat, lard Milk fat Butter Feed: Commodity groups Typical commodity categories Typical representative commodities

• 1. High water content

Forage crops Brassica vegetables Silage Leaves of root and tuber vegetables Grasses, alfalfa, clover, rape, fresh sugar beets Kale/cabbage Maize, clover, grasses Sugar beet leaves and tops

• 2. High acid content and high

water content Fruit pomace Citrus

• 3. High sugar and low water

content

• 4a. High oil content and very

low water content Oil seeds cake or meal Rape, sunflower, cotton- seed, soybeans, olives, etc.

• 4b. High oil content and

intermediate water content

• 5. High starch and/or protein

content and low water and fat content Cereal grain and products thereof, incl. cereal based composite feed Pulses Straw Hay Wheat, rye, barley and oat grains; maize, rice Field bean, dried broad bean, dried haricot bean (yellow, white/navy, brown, speckled), lentils Wheat, rye, barley and oat Grasses

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• 6. “Difficult or unique

commodities”

• 7. Meat and Seafood

Animal origin based composite feed Feed for fish farms

• 8. Milk and milk products
• 9. Eggs
• 10. Fat from food of animal
• rigin

Fat based composite feed Fat content above 15% Followed by a table defining in the x axis the Commodity group and the y axis the individual pesticides e.g. showing which groups are accredited (X) for which pesticide Food (or Feed): Pesticide Commodity Group 1 2 3 4a 4b 5 6 7 8 9 10 Acephate X X X X X X

• X

X X X Acetamiprid X X X X X X

• X

X X Aldicarb- sulfone X X X X X X

• X

X X Aldicarb- sulfoxide X X X X X X

• X

X X Amidosulfuron X X X X X X

• X

X X

• Aminocarb

X X X X X X

• X

X X

• Where the individual pesticides or commodity groups are not included within a single

accredited method coding by letters or numbers will be used to provide traceability to the method listing in the main part of the schedule of accreditation. Short term exclusions from accreditation where for example the laboratory is unable to

• btain acceptable IQC performance would be the requirement of the customer to manage

and communicate at contract review with its’ customers. The procedure for this would be subject to assessment initially as part of the account management exercise to create this schedule type and on-going as part of the annual assessment visit (without additional charge).