Gyeonggi Province Strengthens Pesticide Residue Testing for Agricultural Products

Gyeonggi Province announced on the 13th that it will strengthen safety testing for pesticide residues in agricultural products to supply safe produce to consumers.

To this end, the province plans to collect agricultural products in circulation at four public wholesale markets—Suwon, Guri, Anyang, and Ansan—and conduct pesticide residue testing.

The province plans to randomly collect and test a total of 4,200 agricultural products throughout this year, and all agricultural products that exceed pesticide residue standards detected before auctions at public wholesale markets will be collected and disposed of.

Previously, the province conducted pesticide residue testing on 3,870 items last year and detected 70 non-compliant products, of which 28 items totaling 3,657 kilograms that were detected before distribution to the market were entirely disposed of.