The Association of Peruvian Exporters (ADEX) recently announced that the European Union has excluded Peruvian organic quinoa from the list of organic products subject to additional controls, which means that Peruvian organic quinoa can enter the EU market from 2025.

Peru's media reported on the 16th, since the beginning of 2015, the EU has implemented additional controls on Peruvian organic quinoa, due to the detection of pesticide residues.

Diego Llosa Velásquez, export manager of the Peruvian Exporters Association (AEP), said that these achievements were the result of the Andean Cereals and Pulses Committee under the association, the Quinoa Technical Committee of the Ayacucho Region (Ayacucho), the National Agricultural Sanitation Service (Senasa), and the Committee for Export and Tourism Promotion (PromPerú), Ministry of Agricultural Development and Irrigation, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are the result of a joint effort.

According to Llosa Velásquez, "Since March 2023, we have been facilitating meetings and negotiations between the partners and the government authorities, and now we are seeing good results with this EU decision that will directly benefit organic quinoa growers throughout the country." He added that Peru's lemons, pomegranates and coffee have also been excluded from the EU's list of additional controls on organic products, and that next year, only two of Peru's organic products, bananas and ginger, will be subject to the EU's additional controls, which is a big improvement over this year's five products.

Llosa Velasquez pointed out that Peru's organic quinoa exports have reached $50.4 million during the period from January to September this year, with exports in the first nine months already exceeding last year's total of $29 million. In terms of export destinations, the United States ($31 million) was the top export destination, followed by Canada ($4 million) and Italy ($2.6 million).