Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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Question 97: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the tests which are carried out to monitor for traces of DDT on scallions imported here from Mexico. [18761/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Under the service contract between my Department and the FSAI an annual monitoring programme for the control of pesticide residues in food is agreed. As part of the 2005 programme two samples of Mexican scallions/spring onions were analysed for residues of 148 different pesticides, including DDT. No DDT residue was detected in the samples analysed and the samples were fully compliant with pesticide residue legislation. No samples of Mexican scallions have been selected for pesticide residue analyses to date in 2006.