13 Mar 2015 --- The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has announced that more than 97% of food samples it has evaluated contain pesticide residue levels that fall within legal limits. As part of its 2013 annual report on pesticide residues in food, it also found that 55% of samples were free of any detectable traces of these chemicals. The report includes the results for almost 81,000 food samples from 27 EU member states, Iceland and Norway.