Results from the monitoring of veterinary medicinal product residues and other substances in live animals and animal products - United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland

This dataset contains the monitoring results of veterinary medicinal product residues and other substances measured in live animals and animal products analysed by the national competent authority of United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland. The presence of unauthorised substances, residues of veterinary medicinal products in food may pose a risk factor for public health. For this reason and in order to ensure a high level of consumer protection, a comprehensive legislative framework has been established in the European Union (EU) which defines maximum limits permitted in food and monitoring programmes for the control of the presence of these substances in the food chain. Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 establishes maximum limits for residues of veterinary medicinal products in food-producing animals and animal products. Maximum residue levels for pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1646 lays down practical arrangements for and specific content of official controls of the use of veterinary medicinal products in live animals and products of animal origin through three different official national control plans: a national risk-based control plan for production in the Member States, a national randomised surveillance plan for production in the Member States and a national risk-based control plan for third-country imports. Additionally, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 lays down the range of samples and stage of production, processing and distribution at which the samples are to be taken. Since 2018 until 2022, the data on the national residue monitoring plan were reported to EFSA in accordance with Council Directive 96/23/EC. The dataset contains the results of laboratory tests from samples taken from bovines, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, poultry, rabbits, farmed game, wild game aquaculture, milk, eggs and honey, and from 2023 also samples from casings, insects and reptiles. Targeted samples are taken with the aim of detecting illegal treatment or controlling compliance with the maximum levels laid down in the relevant legislation. This means that, in their national plans Member States target the groups of animals (species, gender, age) where the probability of finding residues is the highest. Conversely, the objective of random sampling is to collect significant data to evaluate, for example, consumer exposure to a specific substance. Suspect samples are taken as a consequence of i) non-compliant results on samples taken in accordance with the control plans, ii) possession or presence of prohibited substances at any point during manufacture, storage, distribution or sale through the food and feed production chain, or iii) suspicion or evidence of illegal treatment or non-compliance with the withdrawal period for an authorised medicinal veterinary product. Residues of pharmacologically active substances mean active substances, excipients or degradation products and their metabolites, which remain in food. Unauthorised substances mean substances that are not authorised as veterinary medicinal products or as a feed additive under European Union legislation. Prohibited substances mean substances which are prohibited for use in food producing animals according to the European Union legislation. Non-compliant sample is a sample that has been analysed for the presence of one or more substances and failed to comply with the legal provisions for at least one substance. Thus, a sample can be non-compliant for one or more substances. For 2021 and 2022 the only United Kingdom data that were reported to EFSA were from Northern Ireland. In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelandfrom the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the WindsorFramework (see Joint Declaration No 1/2023 of the Union and the United Kingdom in the Joint Committee establishedby the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the EuropeanUnion and the European Atomic Energy Community of 24 March 2023, OJ L 102, 17.4.2023, p.87) in conjunction withsection 24 of Annex 2 to that Framework, for the purposes of this Regulation, references to Member States include theUnited Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland. REPORTING AUTHORITIES CONTRIBUTING TO EACH DATA COLLECTION: VMPR_2024 – Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs VMPR_2023 – Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs VMPR_2022 – Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs VMPR_2021 – Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs本数据集包含英国国家主管当局针对北爱尔兰开展的监测结果，检测对象为活动物及动物产品中的兽药残留（veterinary medicinal product residues）与其他物质。食品中存在未授权物质、兽药残留可能对公众健康构成风险因素。 为此，为保障高水平的消费者保护，欧盟（EU）建立了完善的立法框架，明确了食品中的最大允许限量以及食品链中此类物质的监控计划。（EU）第37/2010号条例确立了食用动物及动物产品中兽药残留的最大限量；（EC）第396/2005号条例规定了动植物源食品及饲料中农药的最大残留限量。欧盟委员会实施条例（EU）2022/1646规定了通过三项官方国家管控计划开展的活动物及动物源产品兽药使用官方检查的实操安排与具体内容：针对成员国境内生产的国家风险管控计划、针对成员国境内生产的国家随机监测计划，以及针对第三国进口的国家风险管控计划。此外，欧盟委员会委托条例（EU）2022/1644规定了采样的样本范围以及生产、加工和分销阶段的采样要求。 2018年至2022年期间，相关国家残留监测计划的数据按照欧盟理事会96/23/EC号指令上报至欧洲食品安全局（European Food Safety Authority，EFSA）。 本数据集包含从牛、猪、绵羊、山羊、马、家禽、兔、养殖野味、野生水产养殖动物、牛奶、鸡蛋和蜂蜜中采集样本的实验室检测结果，自2023年起还新增了肠衣、昆虫和爬行动物的样本检测结果。 针对性采样旨在检测非法用药行为，或验证是否符合相关立法规定的最大限量标准。这意味着，成员国在其国家计划中会将采样目标锁定在最有可能检出残留的动物群体（物种、性别、年龄）。反之，随机采样的目标是收集具有统计意义的数据，以评估消费者对特定物质的暴露情况等。 疑似违规样本的采集情形包括：i）按照管控计划采集的样本检测结果不符合要求；ii）在食品和饲料生产链的制造、储存、分销或销售任一环节中拥有或存在禁用物质；iii）存在非法用药或未遵守获准兽药休药期的嫌疑或证据。 药理活性物质残留指残留在食品中的活性物质、辅料或其降解产物及其代谢物。未授权物质指根据欧盟立法未获准作为兽药或饲料添加剂的物质。禁用物质指根据欧盟立法禁止用于食用动物的物质。违规样本指经检测存在一种或多种物质，且至少对一种物质不符合法定规定的样本。因此，一份样本可能因一种或多种物质而被判定为违规。 2021年和2022年，上报至欧洲食品安全局（EFSA）的英国相关数据仅来自北爱尔兰。根据《大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国脱离欧洲联盟及欧洲原子能共同体协定》，特别是《温莎框架》第5(4)条（参见2023年3月24日《大不列颠及北爱尔兰联合王国脱离欧洲联盟及欧洲原子能共同体协定》联合委员会发布的联合声明第1/2023号，OJ L 102，2023年4月17日，第87页），结合该框架附件2第24节，就本条例而言，对成员国的提及包括就北爱尔兰而言的英国。 各数据采集对应的报送机构： VMPR_2024 – 农业、环境与农村事务部 VMPR_2023 – 农业、环境与农村事务部 VMPR_2022 – 农业、环境与农村事务部 VMPR_2021 – 农业、环境与农村事务部