FURTHER INFORMATION ON MRLS AND QUALITY STANDARDS

The European Union's Food Safety website has the latest news on permitted plant protection products and limits on pesticides residues for imports into the European Union. Click on the link to Plant Health/Pesticides Safety for detailed information. There is also a link to a page on international food safety issues and Codex.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/index_en.html

The Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD), an Executive Agency of the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has a webpage on permitted pesticides in the UK and includes a Guide to UK legislation and regular news updates
http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/index.htm

Information about permitted pesticides and 'tolerance' levels on foods imported into the USA can be found at the webpage of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Pesticide Program. This contains information about EPA's pesticide regulatory program, including fact sheets on various topics. Periodic updates on new registrations and tolerances as well as progress in implementing the tolerance reassessment schedule and other provisions of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996 are published on this site.
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/

Procedures for importing food products into the USA can be found at: http://www.fda.gov/ora/import/ora_import_system.html