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Busan Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment Reports 98.8% Safety Rate in 2025 Agricultural Product Tests

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□ The Busan Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment (hereinafter, the “Institute”) conducted residual pesticide tests on agricultural products brought into the Eomgung Agricultural Wholesale Market and Banyeo Agricultural Wholesale Market or distributed in the Busan area last year. The results showed that, out of a total of 4,521 cases, 4,467 cases (98.8%) were compliant with the standards.

□ Agricultural products deemed non-compliant for exceeding the standards were confirmed to be 54 cases (1.2%) across 19 items. Of these, vegetables accounted for most cases, totaling 53 cases, including lettuce, perilla leaves, crown daisy, green onions, garlic chives, young napa cabbage greens, young radish greens, spinach, chicory, and butterbur, among others. The only fruit case was one blueberry.

○ By distribution pathway for the non-compliant products, auctioned agricultural products at the Eomgung Agricultural Wholesale Market and Banyeo Agricultural Wholesale Market accounted for the majority with 47 cases, followed by 6 cases of agricultural products distributed through direct transactions from production areas, and 1 case of spring season high-consumption agricultural products.

<19 items / 54 cases of agricultural products exceeding residual pesticide standards>

• ●Vegetables
  ① Leafy vegetables: lettuce (15 cases), perilla leaves (6 cases), crown daisy (5 cases), young napa cabbage greens (4 cases), young radish greens / spinach / chicory / butterbur (2 cases each), rapeseed greens / chamnamul / romaine lettuce / bok choy (1 case each)
  ② Leaf-stem vegetables: green onions (5 cases), garlic chives (2 cases)
  ③ Root vegetables: radish (root) (1 case)
  ④ Fruiting vegetables other than cucurbits: eggplant / chili pepper / tomato (1 case each)

• ●Fruits ▸ Berries: blueberry (1 case)

○ A total of 29 pesticide ingredients were detected in agricultural products that exceeded the standards: 15 types of insecticides including phorate, terbufos, and diazinon; 11 types of fungicides including diniconazole, tebuconazole, and fluazinam; and 3 types of herbicides including metobenzthiazuron, linuron, and pendimethalin.

○ A total of 5,086 kilograms (kg) of agricultural products exceeding the standards were immediately discarded through the Eomgung and Banyeo Wholesale Market Management Office and the relevant district offices, and the cases were reported to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety’s Emergency Notification System for Non-compliant Products.

□ Meanwhile, the Institute discloses monthly results of residual pesticide tests on agricultural products through its website (busan.go.kr/ihe/healthdata04). Starting in the second half of this year, it plans to further strengthen agricultural product safety management by expanding the number of pesticide analytes for auctioned agricultural products from 452 to 465.

○ The 13 additional pesticide analytes include aldrin, dieldrin, and anilofos.

□ “We will do our utmost to create an environment in which citizens can consume agricultural products with confidence by further strengthening pre-auction safety testing and proactively blocking the distribution of agricultural products subject to safety management,” said Lee Yong-ju, Director of the Busan Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment.