The 2023-24 National Residue Survey (NRS) Grains Brochure has again demonstrated strong results with the recently published report showing that overall compliance with Australian pesticide residue standards is 99.1 per cent.
Operating within the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, the NRS helps maintain standards, through compliance with pesticide maximum residue limits (MRLs), to help facilitate important trade and market access for Australian grain producers and industry.
This year’s NRS Grains Survey provides more data and evidence to show Australian grain producers and bulk grain handlers continue to demonstrate a high degree of good agricultural practice.
As part of the NRS testing program that’s funded by grain producer levies, grain samples are collected at bulk export terminals, container export packers, oilseed crushers, feed mills, flour mills, feedlots and food processors.
The number of samples collected for testing is influenced by Australian production levels and export markets. This year’s NRS Grains Brochure showed 6,835 samples were collected for analysis, in total.
This year’s report recorded grain compliance rates, against the Australian MRL standards, at; 99c for the domestic trade program (830 samples collected); 98.7pc for the container export program (1781 samples collected); and 99.7pc for the bulk export program (4224 samples collected).
These results also showed Australian grain producers and industry have continued to maintain these high standards of performance and integrity, over the past five years.
“The results highlight excellent compliance with Australian standards and demonstrate the strong commitment of the grains industry to good agricultural practice. The consistently high compliance rates help maintain the reputation and integrity of Australian grains in international and domestic markets,” the National Residue Survey 2023–24 Grains Brochure said.
GPA RD&E Spokesperson, Andrew Weidemann said NRS survey results are recognised as a prime data source, to provide evidence of the grains industry’s strong performance record.
He said the 2023-24 results again recognised the high standards achieved and maintained by the Australian grains industry, to support economic productivity and sustainability.
“This results of year’s NRS Grains Brochure again shows the excellent compliance rates achieved by industry; including 99.7pc for the bulk export program from 4224 samples collected,” he said.
“This plays an important role supporting the Australian grains industry’s reputation for producing high quality crops – and our capacity to facilitate trade, securely and sustainably, to meet strong demand and various trade requirements of many different and important markets.”
The 2023–24 NRS Grains Brochure is available HERE with versions provided in multiple languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Vietnamese etc, to highlight the diversity of Australia’s grain export markets.
GPA members are engaged in NRS processes and provide input into related policy matters of grain quality and integrity, through the GPA Pesticide and Technology Sub-committee. HERE
The NRS program covers cereal grains (barley, maize, oat, sorghum, triticale, wheat, wheat durum, millet, rye), pulses (adzuki bean, chickpea, cowpea, faba bean, field pea, lentil, lupin, mung bean, navy bean, pigeon pea, soybean and vetch), and oilseeds (canola, linseed, safflower, sunflower). The milled fractions of wheat, wheat durum, soybean, rye, and maize are included in the milled grains program. See GPA media release on 2022-23 results HERE
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