Starting from this month, a national standard was implemented - the Ministry of Agriculture and the former Ministry of Health jointly issued the "Maximum Residue Limits of Pesticides in Foods". The new standard has completely solved the problem of the coexistence and cross-cutting of multiple previous pesticide residue limit standards and achieved the harmonization of various standards.

The new standard stipulates 2293 limits for 322 pesticides in 10 major agricultural products, basically covering China's major agricultural products. As the first time the standard for pesticide residue detection was recommended, the operability of the standard was significantly enhanced. “This will help regulate the rational use of pesticides by farmers, control pesticide residues from the source, and guarantee the quality and safety of agricultural products.” Head of Ministry of Agriculture Evaluation.

"How do I feel that pesticide residues are now more severe?" After the reporter told Auntie a new standard, she asked back.

In fact, from the routine monitoring results of the Ministry of Agriculture in recent years, the pass rate of pesticide residues in foods has increased year by year.

In 2012, the qualified rate of monitoring of pesticide residues in vegetables reached 97.9%, which was 23.7 and 4 percentage points higher than that in 2002 and 2007 respectively. Routine monitoring throughout the country also showed that the number of prohibited pesticides detected has decreased year by year. In 2012, the number of banned pesticides in vegetables was only 7 times, which was 215 and 17 times lower than in 2007 and 2011 respectively. The number of restricted pesticides exceeded 243. Respectively 106 and 66 times less than in 2007 and 2011.

The above-mentioned person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture stated that “it is safe to say that the status of pesticide residues is not getting worse and the agricultural products are generally safer.”

He believes that the reason for the difference between the test data and some people's feelings is that media reports have magnified the cases on the one hand; on the other hand, the current detection methods are getting more and more advanced, and a very small amount of residues can be detected and made people feel It seems that many types of pesticide residues are common. "In fact, the detection of pesticide residues does not mean that it is harmful to health. As long as the residue does not exceed the national safety limit standards, it will not cause harm."

Pesticide quality pass the pesticide product quality pass rate has reached 88.4%

It was learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that among the causes of excessive pesticide residues in agricultural products, the illegal addition of other active ingredients to pesticides accounted for a significant proportion. Can farmers buy qualified pesticides?

Herbicides, insecticides, regulators... The pesticide supermarkets of farmers in Yanyuan Town, Zhongyuan Town, Qionghai City, Hainan, are less than 100 square meters, but they are filled with bottles, jars and cans. Yan Shusheng pointed at the surveillance camera in the shop and said: “This is installed by the agricultural department, which facilitates the government to do network monitoring and make sales of each pesticide well documented.”

In order to improve the quality of pesticides, the Ministry of Agriculture has carried out four years of continuous supervision of the pesticide market, annual activities in the supervision of pesticides and construction of the legal system. Data show that in 2012 China's pesticide product quality qualification rate has reached 88.4%. Since the 1980s, China has successively withdrawn 33 pesticide registrations with high-toxicity and high-risk varieties, which has prevented the potential risks of highly toxic pesticides from the source. At present, low-toxic and micro-toxic pesticide products account for more than 70% of the total number of registered pesticide products. The proportion of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticide products has dropped below 2%.

On the whole, the quality of pesticide products has steadily increased. However, there is no worry. Before the Spring Festival this year, Hainan’s cowpeas were detected in the wholesale market in Guangzhou with excessive pesticide residues. After the incident, Hainan Province conducted a large-scale investigation across the province. A few days ago, Hainan Provincial Department of Agriculture Department of the Yangtze River Huaan told reporters that in the past, the focus of the work of the agricultural audit department is usually on the investigation of highly toxic pesticides, but the investigation, the conventional pesticides are also tested, and found that excessive pesticide residue is because Conventional pesticides are highly toxic and farmers are also victims. "This is a small number of regular pesticide production companies that have violated regulations."

How do farmers fight drugs? Sometimes, which kind of medicine is cheaper, which kind of person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that overdosing and high-frequency application of pesticides during use are also an important reason for excessive residue.

“Medical knowledge is generally obtained through word of mouth among farmers,” said Zhang Xunwen, a vegetable farmer in Hedian Village, Tangfang Township, Gaoqing County. Although the local farmers also read the instructions, “The use of drugs is generally more important than the instructions. ".

In Hedian Village, most of the people who fight drugs in the fields are middle-aged and elderly people, and young people who have medicine buckets are hardly seen in the fields. Zhang Xunwen said: “As a matter of fact, if people are sick, they need to see a doctor and they need a doctor to prescribe. This is not easy to do in remote rural areas. We need help from cooperatives or professionals, and we recommend that relevant departments and related personnel make more trips to the countryside. ."

Faced with the needs of farmers, relevant responsible persons from the Ministry of Agriculture stated that they will make full use of grassroots agricultural technology promotion systems, science and technology home projects, and news media such as radio and television to increase the training of farmers in scientific drug use and guide farmers to purchase drugs correctly. Rationally use drugs, implement field management in accordance with production technical regulations, and improve the effect of pest control.

The reduction of the use of highly toxic pesticides in the fields is also hindered by some real factors. "'*****', we all know this. Bio-pesticides have low residues, high-toxicity pesticides have high residuals, and the rational use of pesticides to ensure that residue levels are known. But in terms of prices, biological drug prices are high and high. Poison prices are low. We must know that the people are the most attention to reality, and sometimes which kind of medicine is cheaper to use.” Zhang Xuwen said frankly.

This year's Central Document No. 1 proposed that the policy of strong peasants, farmers, and rich peasants be continuously strengthened, and a pilot program for the use of low-toxicity and low-residue pesticides should be launched. According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, in the last two years, on the basis of subsidies for the demonstration and promotion of low-toxicity biological pesticides, the government will actively strive for financial transfer payments, promote the application of low-toxicity and low-residue pesticides, and continuously reduce the level of pesticide residues.