Appropriate pesticide maximum residue levels and contaminant
maximum permissible limits are held within the MoniQA
contaminants database for all appropriate commodities and these
are linked to the plants in the ePlantLIBRA so that the information
is passed to ePlantLIBRA database by a regular web service; a software
system designed to support interoperable machine-tomachine
interaction over a network. The second data set comes
from Fera’s HorizonScan database (www.horizon-scan.com), whichcontains global information on issues of contamination in commodities
traded around the world. Links to the ePlantLIBRA plants
are made in the same way, as both systems use a common commodity
list, but in some cases no data are available for specific
plants in the ePlantLIBRA list, so data from similar commodities
are given. These data provide current information on the issues
likely to be encountered in these plants and give a good indication
of what contaminants and residues should be measured in a due
diligence exercise of risk monitoring (Table 2b).