The report from EFSA deals with data from two different control programmes: A National
control programme designed by each participating country, and an EU-coordinated
programme, where guidance on the specific control activities is given. The EU-coordinated
programme is focused on the provision of statistically representative data where the samples
are collected randomly in order to serve as a reliable indicator for the compliance rate of the
food with regulatory limits and allow an estimation of actual consumer exposure. In the
National control programme, enforcement samples where suspicion towards certain types of
food and producers may have influenced the process of selecting samples are also included. In
the present report, only data from the EU-coordinated programme or surveillance samples are
used.