Data collection: chemical monitoring

Deadlines for 2024 Chemicals data reporting and validation

  1. 1 March 2024

    Data collection framework opens for testing data transmission

  2. 1 April 2024

    Data collection framework opens for the official data transmission

  3. 30 June 2024

    Deadline for the complete transmission of all residue data domains datasets/data (VMPR, pesticide residues, chemical contaminants and food additives)

    All data to be transmitted to the EFSA DCF by 30 June 2024: data providers for all data domains in the frame of the harmonised ChemMon data collection will have until 31 August 2024 to validate (check) and accept their data in the EFSA Scientific DataWareHouse (sDWH)

  4. 31 August 2024

    Deadline for data validation and data acceptance in the EFSA sDWH

  5. 1 September 2024

    Closure of the data collection

    No more data correction, validation and acceptance will be possible

Chemical monitoring reporting guides and documents

Data reporting tools

MS Excel based tools used for reporting chemical monitoring data 

Legal limits database - used for compliance checking chemical monitoring data

Catalogues in MS Excel format

The EFSA catalogues for 2024 data reporting are available in Excel format for ease of use and reference. The catalogues are published on the EFSA Knowledge Junction (Zenodo) (an open access research data repository).

European Union reports on pesticide residues in food: 2007  |  2008  |  2009  |  2010  |  2011  |  2012  |  2013  |  2014  |  2015  |  2016  |  2017  |  2018  |  2019  |  2020  |  2021

Pesticide residues data visualisations: 2015  |  2016  |  2017  |  2018  |  2019 |  2020  |  2021

European Union annual reports on Veterinary Medicinal Product Residues: 2008  |  2009  |  2010  |  2011  |  2012  |  2013  |  2014  |  2015  |  2016  |  2017  |  2018  |  2019  |  2020  |  2021  |  2022

Veterinary Medicinal Product Residues data visualisations: 2020  |  2021  |  2022