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Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Description This dataset contains the monitoring results of veterinary medicinal product residues and other substances measured in live animals and animal products analysed by the national competent authority of Ireland. The presence of unauthorised substances, residues of veterinary medicinal products in food may pose a risk factor for public health. For this reason and in order to ensure a high level of consumer protection, a comprehensive legislative framework has been established in the European Union (EU) which defines maximum limits permitted in food and monitoring programmes for the control of the presence of these substances in the food chain. Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 establishes maximum limits for residues of veterinary medicinal products in food-producing animals and animal products. Maximum residue levels for pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 396/2005. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1646 lays down practical arrangements for and specific content of official controls of the use of veterinary medicinal products in live animals and products of animal origin through three different official national control plans: a national risk-based control plan for production in the Member States, a national randomised surveillance plan for production in the Member States and a national risk-based control plan for third-country imports. Additionally, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1644 lays down the range of samples and stage of production, processing and distribution at which the samples are to be taken. Since 2018 until 2022, the data on the national residue monitoring plan were reported to EFSA in accordance with Council Directive 96/23/EC. The dataset contains the results of laboratory tests from samples taken from bovines, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, poultry, rabbits, farmed game, wild game aquaculture, milk, eggs and honey, and from 2023 also samples from casings, insects and reptiles. Targeted samples are taken with the aim of detecting illegal treatment or controlling compliance with the maximum levels laid down in the relevant legislation. This means that, in their national plans Member States target the groups of animals (species, gender, age) where the probability of finding residues is the highest. Conversely, the objective of random sampling is to collect significant data to evaluate, for example, consumer exposure to a specific substance. Suspect samples are taken as a consequence of i) non-compliant results on samples taken in accordance with the control plans, ii) possession or presence of prohibited substances at any point during manufacture, storage, distribution or sale through the food and feed production chain, or iii) suspicion or evidence of illegal treatment or non-compliance with the withdrawal period for an authorised medicinal veterinary product. Residues of pharmacologically active substances mean active substances, excipients or degradation products and their metabolites, which remain in food. Unauthorised substances mean substances that are not authorised as veterinary medicinal products or as a feed additive under European Union legislation. Prohibited substances mean substances which are prohibited for use in food producing animals according to the European Union legislation. Non-compliant sample is a sample that has been analysed for the presence of one or more substances and failed to comply with the legal provisions for at least one substance. Thus, a sample can be non-compliant for one or more substances. REPORTING AUTHORITIES CONTRIBUTING TO EACH DATA COLLECTION: VMPR_2024 – Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine VMPR_2023 – Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine VMPR_2022 – Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine VMPR_2021 – Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine VMPR_2020 – Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine VMPR_2019 – Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine VMPR_2018 – Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine VMPR_2017 – Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Notes EU; CSV; [email protected] Files VMPR_2020_IE.ZIP Files (73.9 MB) Name Size Download all VMPR_2017_IE.7z md5:edcf883f7f6cc77796c3dba227c4b526 5.7 MB Download VMPR_2018_IE.7z md5:acbab5e2e377fac1f3936d5f6d7cb3db 9.8 MB Download VMPR_2019_IE.7z md5:987f427bd0cb55d520b83afa15a7822e 7.5 MB Download VMPR_2020_IE.ZIP md5:1ef18102070b23e69c2ce9f3c0d769ee 7.1 MB Preview Download VMPR_2021_IE.ZIP md5:2a009d73ba4714e5b72063985c0a94d7 7.6 MB Preview Download VMPR_2022_IE.ZIP md5:d4873aab48305e396669bd0816acefc2 13.8 MB Preview Download VMPR_2023_IE.ZIP md5:db4ea3bb25ed137db9b2de3d30f7fac4 10.3 MB Preview Download VMPR_2024_IE.ZIP md5:f11fd84edab85b6face2f034edaca4e5 12.1 MB Preview Download Additional details Related works Cites http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/37(1)/oj (URL) http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2005/396/oj (URL) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/1644/oj (URL) http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/625/oj (URL) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1646/oj (URL) Has part 10.5281/zenodo.779880 (DOI) Is documented by 10.5281/zenodo.2543210 (DOI) Is part of 10.2903/sp.efsa.2022.EN-7143 (DOI) 10.2903/sp.efsa.2023.EN-7886 (DOI) 10.2903/sp.efsa.2024.EN-8669 (DOI) 10.2903/sp.efsa.2025.EN-9297 (DOI) Subjects veterinary products http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C7560 residues http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C1841 monitoring http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C846 farmed animal species http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C22815 animal products http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C1797 1K Views 1K Downloads Show more details All versions This version Views Total views 1,087 70 Downloads Total downloads 1,006 120 Data volume Total data volume 9.1 GB 1.1 GB More info on how stats are collected.... 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