EN
One of the most important factors influencing human development and health condition are nutrition habits. The quality of food including first of all health safety as well as usable attributes of products, often determines a consumer’s choice. Safe food should be characterized by both adequate nutritive value and a tolerably low content of the substances that are a threat for health, e.g. pesticide residues. The research carried out showed not significant chronic dietary consumer’s exposure to residues of all determined pesticides in 2009 in Polish crops was not significant, despite the exposure overestimation. Acute dietary exposure did not exceed ARfD for toddlers and for adults. The presented data show that Polish fruits and vegetables are safe in long and short term nutrition of adults and toddlers.