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Guidance on ISO/IEC 17025 Schedule Presentation for Pesticides in Food 18 April 2017 It is an ISO/IEC 17025 requirement that methods shall be validated in the matrices to be tested. In the case of pesticides in Feed, Food and Food products the general guidance is that validation should be in line with (or equivalent to) current SANTE Guidelines (at time of writing SANTE 11945/2015). This bulletin groups food items likely to be tested for pesticide residues into Commodity Groups and proposes validation by Group. Following requests from a small number of customers who have expressed a preference to have their pesticide schedule listings expressed in terms of the SANTE commodity groups the following is proposed: Where validation has been carried out in accordance with these groupings and the laboratory has specifically request listing on their accreditation schedules by Commodity Groups this can be accommodated but will incur an account management charge of up to 0.5 days to revise and re-issue the schedule in this format. Typical format for this would be to include as an annex to the schedule a table defining the Commodity Groups (current SANTE groupings as below): Vegetable and fruits, cereals and food of animal origin: Commodity groups Typical commodity Typical representative categories commodities 1. High water content Apples, pears Pome fruit Apricots, cherries, peaches Stone fruit Bananas Other fruit Onions, leeks Alliums Tomatoes, peppers, Fruiting vegetables / cucumbers, melons cucurbits Cauliflowers, Brussels- Brassica vegetables sprouts, cabbages, broccoli Lettuce, spinach, basil Leafy vegetables and fresh herbs Celery, asparagus Stem and stalk vegetables Forage / fodder crops Fresh alfalfa, fodder vetch, fresh sugar beets Fresh peas with pods, peas, Fresh legume vegetables mange tout, broad beans, runner beans, French beans Page 1 of 4

Guidance on ISO/IEC 17025 Schedule Presentation for Pesticides in Food 18 April 2017 Sugar beet and fodder beet Leaves of root and tuber tops vegetables Champignons, chanterelles Fresh Fungi Sugar beet and fodder beet Root and tuber vegetables or roots, carrots, Potatoes, feed sweet potatoes 2. High acid content and high Citrus fruit Lemons, mandarins, water content tangerines, oranges Small fruit and berries Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, red currants, white currants, grapes Fruit pomace Citrus fruits 3. High sugar and low water Honey, dried fruit Honey, raisins, dried content apricots, dried plums, fruit jams 4a. High oil content and very Tree nuts Walnuts, hazelnuts, low water content chestnuts Oilseed rape, sunflower, Oil seeds cotton-seed, soybeans, peanuts, sesame etc. Pastes of tree nuts and oil Peanut butter, tahina, seeds hazelnut paste 4b. High oil content and Oily fruits and products Olives, avocados and pastes intermediate water content thereof 5. High starch and/or protein Dry legume Field beans, dried broad content and low water and vegetables/pulses beans, dried haricot fat content beans(yellow, white/navy, brown, speckled), lentils Cereal grain and products Wheat, rye, barley and oat thereof grains; maize, rice wholemeal bread, white bread, crackers, breakfast cereals, pasta Cereal grain products thereof, incl. cereal based composite feed 6. “Difficult or unique Hops commodities” Cocoa beans and products thereof, coffee, tea Spices 7. Meat (muscle) and Red muscle Beef, pork, lamb, game, Seafood horse White muscle Chicken, duck, turkey Offal Liver, kidney Fish Cod, haddock, salmon, trout Page 2 of 4

Guidance on ISO/IEC 17025 Schedule Presentation for Pesticides in Food 18 April 2017 8. Milk and milk products Cow, goat and buffalo milk Milk Cow and goat cheese Cheese Yogurt, cream Dairy products 9. Eggs Eggs Chicken, duck, quail and goose eggs 10. Fat from food of animal Fat from meat Kidney fat, lard origin Milk fat Butter Feed: Commodity groups Typical commodity Typical representative categories commodities 1. High water content Forage crops Grasses, alfalfa, clover, rape, fresh sugar beets Brassica vegetables Kale/cabbage Silage Maize, clover, grasses Leaves of root and tuber Sugar beet leaves and tops vegetables 2. High acid content and high Fruit pomace Citrus water content 3. High sugar and low water - content 4a. High oil content and very Oil seeds cake or meal Rape, sunflower, cotton- low water content seed, soybeans, olives, etc. 4b. High oil content and - intermediate water content 5. High starch and/or protein Cereal grain and products Wheat, rye, barley and oat content and low water and thereof, incl. cereal based grains; maize, rice fat content composite feed Pulses Field bean, dried broad bean, dried haricot bean (yellow, white/navy, brown, speckled), lentils Wheat, rye, barley and oat Straw Grasses Hay Page 3 of 4

Guidance on ISO/IEC 17025 Schedule Presentation for Pesticides in Food 18 April 2017 6. “Difficult or unique - commodities” 7. Meat and Seafood Animal origin based Feed for fish farms composite feed 8. Milk and milk products - 9. Eggs - 10. Fat from food of animal Fat based composite feed Fat content above 15% origin Followed by a table defining in the x axis the Commodity group and the y axis the individual pesticides e.g. showing which groups are accredited (X) for which pesticide Food (or Feed): Pesticide Commodity Group 1 2 3 4a 4b 5 6 7 8 9 10 Acephate X X X X X X - X X X X Acetamiprid X X X X X X - - X X X Aldicarb- X X X X X X - - X X X sulfone Aldicarb- X X X X X X - - X X X sulfoxide Amidosulfuron X X X X X X - X X X - Aminocarb X X X X X X - X X X - Where the individual pesticides or commodity groups are not included within a single accredited method coding by letters or numbers will be used to provide traceability to the method listing in the main part of the schedule of accreditation. Short term exclusions from accreditation where for example the laboratory is unable to obtain acceptable IQC performance would be the requirement of the customer to manage and communicate at contract review with its’ customers. The procedure for this would be subject to assessment initially as part of the account management exercise to create this schedule type and on-going as part of the annual assessment visit (without additional charge). Page 4 of 4