Monitoring of Paraquat in soya products intended for animal feed

Food Safety and Risk

Table 1 Overview of the sample material

	No. of samples
Soya product^a
Soya bean meal (partly steam-heated or dehulled)	144
Soya beans (untreated, steam-heated or toasted)	11
Soya bean protein concentrate	10
Soya bean expeller	7
Soya bean hulls	2
Genetically modified soybeans
Genetically modified organism (GMO)	94
Non-GMO	68
Unknown	12
Region of origin
Brazil	88
Argentina	11
Russia	11
India	6
USA	4
Ukraine	2
PR China	2
Austria	2
Canada	1
Lithuania	1
North America	1
Norway	1
Unknown^b	44

^aDetailed definitions of the various soya products are given in the official catalogue of feed materials (European Commission, 2017a)
^bEspecially for samples from manufacturers of compound feeding stuffs, the region of origin and the point of entry into the EU had to be marked as “Unknown” because there is no obligation to label where feed materials were cultivated

ISSN: 2731-9245