About the Working Party on Pesticide Residues (WPPR)

The WPPR (Working Party on Pesticides Residues) was a government-organised committee that administered residues surveillance from 1977 to 2000 and published comprehensive annual reports which detailed all the results. Although reports were particularly valued by the pesticide and food industry, they were perhaps less accessible to the public in general. The WPPR was replaced by the fully independent Pesticide Residues Committee (PRC) at the end of 2000.

This page allows you to download WPPR reports from 1996 to 1999. It also provides information on how to obtain paper copies of reports back to 1988.

WPPR Surveys, Reports & News Releases: 2000

WPPR Surveys, Reports & News Releases:1999

WPPR Surveys, Reports & News Releases: 1998

WPPR Reports: 1996 and 1997

Earlier WPPPR Reports

WPPR Surveys, Reports & News Releases: 2000

• 1998 processed potatoes survey, 1998 animal feed ingredients survey, 1999 sweet pepper survey as well as research on the processing of samples.

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WPPR Surveys, Reports & News Releases: 1999

• Full 1999 Report (including brand names)
• Second Half of the Pear Results
• 14 March 2000 - Baroness Hayman Announces Plans for New Veterinary and Pesticide Residues Committees (This in no longer available from Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) website)
• Interim Results of Soya Products Survey (pdf)
• Interim Pear Results (pdf)

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WPPR Surveys, Reports and News Releases: 1998

• Full 1998 Report (including brand names)
• 1998 WPPR Pear Survey
• 1999 WPPR Potato Survey

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WPPR Reports:1996 and 1997

• 1997(a), (pdf)
• 1997(b), (pdf)
• 1996 (pdf)

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Earlier WPPR Reports:

• Paper copies of the WPPR annual reports for 1996 to 1999 are available, free of charge, from Defra Publications by writing to:

  ADMAIL 600
  London
  SW1A 2XX

  or by telephoning 08459 556000. Quote PB numbers, as shown in table below.

• Paper copies of WPPR reports for earlier years are available, as priced publications, from the Stationery Office, telephone 0870 600 5522. Quote ISBN numbers, as shown in table below.

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