Dear Mr. Pötter,
You are certainly aware, pesticide residues are a top concern of European consumers regarding food risks[1]. Earlier this year your company started to introduce measures in order to reduce pesticide residues in fresh food sold by Lidl in Germany. According to our information, Lidl installed an extended quality control system and a new standard that limits pesticides residues in fresh produce to 1/3 of the current maximum residue limits in Germany. Lidl also started to sell organic food and fair trade products in all German shops. In addition Lidl announced to sell QS[2] certified food from the QS program which is monitoring pesticides residues as well. A further step undertaken by Lidl in Germany early October this year was the (preliminary) phase out of conventionally grown table grapes due to high pesticide residues consistently found in this product.