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That\u2019s indefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cEvery family in Aotearoa should be able to feed their kids food that is safe from illegally high amounts of pesticide residue. But that is clearly not the case because of gross negligence by the very governmental body charged with ensuring food safety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>NZ Food Safety sits within the MPI, which is charged with enforcing the Food Regulations 2015. The regulations prohibit the sale of food with residues above maximum limits. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-aotearoa-stateless\/2025\/06\/53a5f1de-oia25-0278-oia-response.pdf\">documents obtained by Greenpeace under the Official Information Act<\/a> confirm there have been <strong>no prosecutions for breaches or even a single fine<\/strong> over the last five years, at least.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThis Government and New Zealand Food Safety appear more interested in protecting the profits of agrichemical companies like Bayer than protecting the safety of New Zealanders\u2019 food, and the health of our environment,\u201d says Toop.<\/p>\n\n<p>In 2022-23, MPI testing<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpi.govt.nz\/dmsdocument\/65391-Food-Residues-Survey-Programme-Report-2022-2023\"> found three food samples<\/a> containing illegally high levels of methamidophos, a highly toxic organophosphate pesticide that is<strong> now banned.<\/strong> One sample had residue levels 30 times over the limit, and had been <strong>illegally used on a crop for which it wasn\u2019t authorised for use on<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.govt.nz\/assets\/FileAPI\/hsno-ar\/APP201045\/989dca5648\/APP201045-APP201045-Decision-Amended-with-s67As-and-APP202142-2015.07.28.pdf\">EPA, in its decision<\/a> to ban the chemical, organophosphates like methamidophos are linked to developmental harm in fetuses and infants, neuropsychological and motor function effects, increased risk of cancer, Parkinson\u2019s disease, obesity, and diabetes.<\/p>\n\n<p>The revelations come as ACT Ministers David Seymour and Andrew Hoggard push a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-02\/Agricultural%20and%20Horticultural%20Products%20Regulatory%20Review%20media%20information.pdf\"> food safety deregulation agenda,<\/a> including a plan to fast-track pesticide approvals and allow agrichemical companies to <strong>self-assess<\/strong> their own hazardous chemicals.<\/p>\n\n<p>They also come after MPI and NZ food safety have proposed a 100-fold increase in legally allowed residues of the controversial herbicide glyphosate on wheat, oats and barley.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of making it easier to use toxic chemicals on our food in ways that are blatantly illegal, the Government should be supporting farmers to transition to ecological farming that protects people and the planet,\u201d says Toop. <\/p>\n\n<p>Greenpeace is calling on the Government to enforce existing food safety laws, halt ACT\u2019s dangerous deregulation agenda and scrap the plan to raise glyphosate levels 100-fold. 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