The ChemKAP website was developed in order to provide general information on contaminants and pesticides, information on the KAP-database and the description of various risk and exposure assessment tools. Should you find any errors or have any comments or suggestions, please contact our team (Matthijs Sam, Gerda van Donkersgoed, Trijntje van der Velde-Koerts) working on the ChemKAP website: chemkap@rivm.nl. Correspondence address: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services P.O. Box1 3720 BA Bilthoven The Netherlands e-mail address:chemkap@rivm.nl. Office address: National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Centre for Nutrition, Prevention and Health Services Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9 3721 MA Bilthoven PO Box 1 3720 BA Bilthoven The Netherlands

According to Directive 90/642/EEC, all European Member States are obliged to prepare a National Plan for Horticulture Products which shows how they will implement the monitoring for traces of pesticides in the coming year. The plan is implemented after approval by Brussels. The results from the previous year must also be reported to the European Commission.

The Dutch dairy industry continually monitors the purity and safety of milk and dairy products, taking account of a large number of risk factors. The Quality Programme for Agricultural Products (KAP) deals only with the residues and contaminants covered by the dairy industry’s monitoring programmes: organochlorine chemicals, PCBs and aflatoxin.

The government has laid down rules in the regulation on animal feeds to guarantee the quality of animal feeds, and thus also of meat, milk and eggs. Many of the legal requirements for producers and those who distribute animal feeds are set at the European level.

The big retail companies play an increasing role in meat production and are more often setting requirements as to the way in which meat is produced. The BSE problem, and other debates on questions such as the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in meat production, have put food safety high on the agenda as an on-going topic of discussion. The premise is that meat may not contain traces of growth promoters, veterinary drugs, pesticides or environmental contaminants in quantities that could damage consumer health.

LIST OF PROCESSING FACTORS TO EVALUATE PESTICIDE RESIDUES MEASURED IN THE NETHERLANDS Last update: 11 June 2020 In order to come to a harmonized use of processing factors for the estimation of dietary intakes of pesticide residues found in enforcement and monitoring programs and by producers, a list of processing factors has been put together for priority substances as defined by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) and the then Dutch Product Board for Horticulture (Productschap Tuinbouw) in 2011. The list that is made available on this site has been endorsed as the current default in the Netherlands by the then Ministries of VWS (1) and EL&I (1) in December 2011. Adaptations of this list will first be discussed in the pesticide residue consultation group (2). Upon agreement in this group, the changes will be implemented in the list. It is therefore pivotal to always use the latest version from the Processing factors webpage on the RIVM website. In 2019 the pesticide residue consultation group decided to use the PRIMo rev 3.1 model for dietary intake. The processing factors listed in the Dutch processing database were adapted to match with the commodities listed in the PRIMo rev 3.1 model. In 2020 this consultation group decided to add processing factors for dried commodities as these were not represented in the PRIMo rev 3.1 model. Processing factors have been obtained in order of importance from the 2018 EFSA database, EFSA Journals and JMPR reports and evaluations. The overview of the processing factors is listed in an Excel spreadsheet on this site (20200611_Overview processing factors.xls (in zip-file)) and represents the situation of 11 June 2020. The rationale behind the current list of processing factors is presented in the documents “20200611_Rationale processing factors.pdf” and “20200611_Processing factors for dried commodities.pdf” on this site. No update has taken place since March 20, 2018.  (1) VWS: Public Health, Welfare and Sport; EL&I: Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (2) this group is formed by representatives from the Ministry of VWS, the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), the Board for the Authorisation of Plant Protection Products and Biocides (Ctgb), the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and the Fresh Produce Centre (Groente Fruit Huis).

The Product Board Animal Feed has a number of monitoring programmes through which it keeps a finger on the pulse. By studying the results it is able to detect undesirable developments promptly and see how they are to be managed. The monitoring programme for chemical contaminants focuses on aflatoxin, cadmium, pesticides and Salmonella.

In the Netherlands the National Inspection Service for Livestock and Meat (Rijksdienst voor de keuring van Vee en Vlees, RVV) and the General Inspection Service (Algemene Inspectie Dienst, AID), acting on behalf of the government, monitor whether the national and international regulation in the area of agricultural chemicals is being observed. But the meat production sector itself is also increasingly active in this area. To be able to guarantee food safety, limits have been set for harmful substances that may end up in meat, either intentionally or unintentionally.