In South Korea, aT designated as a ‘residual pesticide’ inspection agency after strengthening safety management of stockpiled agricultural products

The Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (aT) will expand the scope of designation of safety inspection agencies as stipulated in the Agricultural and Fishery Product Quality Control Act to strengthen the safety management of stockpiled agricultural products. aT announced on the 27th that it was designated as a safety inspection institution capable of analyzing pesticide residues in agricultural products on the 23rd, and that it was recognized for its analysis ability on all major inspection items related to agricultural products. aT was previously designated as a safety inspection agency in the heavy metal analysis category in 2019. aT, the government's stockpile agricultural product supply and demand management agency, purchases and imports about 700,000 tons of stockpiled agricultural products (rice, soybeans, garlic, onion, Chinese cabbage, etc.) annually, and supplies them to the domestic market stably. In 2016, it established its own laboratory for professional ...