The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published its latest Pesticide Monitoring Program (PMP) report covering fiscal year (FY) 2022. Testing and analysis of human foods conducted between October 2021 and September 2022 found 96.2 percent of domestic samples and 89.5 percent of imported samples to be compliant with pesticide residue tolerances set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

In FY 2022, FDA analyzed 2,800 human food samples, 731 of which were domestic and 2,069 of which were imported, collected from 41 states and originating from 81 countries, respectively. Foods from California represented the greatest number of domestic samples (138 samples), followed by Illinois (105), Kansas (63), New York (56), and Florida (29). The greatest number of import samples were sourced from Mexico (827 samples), followed by Canada (185), China (141), India (87), and Peru (68).