On June 16, 2022, the Swiss Federal Office for Food Safety and Veterinary (BLV) released the monitoring report on pesticide residues in food for 2021. The main contents include:
(1) A sampling plan and the production and consumption of plant-based foods in Switzerland, covering 14 products in four major categories of vegetables, fruits, grains and vegetable oils, with about 30 samples per product and a total of 414 samples monitored;  
 
(2) In 218 samples, one or more residues exceeded the limit of quantization (LOQ), the detection rate was 53%, among which the detection rate of vegetable was 35% (63/179), the detection rate of vegetable oil was 0, only one sample (apple) exceeded the maximum residue limit (MRL), the unqualified rate was 0.2%, the unqualified item was 1, 4-dimethylnaphthalene;  
 
(3) The detection rate and nonconforming rate decreased slightly compared with 2020. In 2020, 428 samples were monitored, and 230 samples were detected exceeding LOQ, with a detection rate of 54%, and 3 samples were detected exceeding MRL, with a nonconforming rate of 0.7%.