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Home » Keywords: » Pesticide Data Program (PDP)

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EWG’s 2025 ‘Dirty Dozen’ List of Most Pesticide-Contaminated Produce Uses New Methodology

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Bailee Henderson
July 9, 2025

The Environmental Working Group’s (EWG’s) 2025 Dirty Dozen list considers pesticide toxicity for the first time. While critics say the list is alarmist and may discourage the consumption of safe fruit and vegetables, EWG argues that “legal does not mean safe” when it comes to pesticide residues.


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Online Tool Estimates Servings of Produce Required for Meaningful Exposure to Pesticide Residues

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Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team
February 19, 2025

The Alliance for Food and Farming has created an online tool that enables users to view the amount of produce a person would have to consume to experience health effects from pesticide residues.


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USDA Testing for 2023 Shows 99 Percent of Foods Do Not Exceed Pesticide Residue Tolerances

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Bailee Henderson
November 11, 2024

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released its Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary for 2023, which showed more than 99 percent of sampled products to be compliant with pesticide residue tolerances set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).


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Consumer Reports Analyzes Seven Years of USDA Pesticide Residue Monitoring Data, Highlights Risky Foods

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Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team
April 18, 2024

Based on an analysis of seven years of data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA's) Pesticide Data Program, watchdog group Consumer Reports is warning that it found pesticide residues to pose “significant risks” in 20 percent of foods analyzed.


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USDA Releases Annual Pesticide Residue Report, Finds 99 Percent of Samples Below Benchmarks

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Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team
January 31, 2024

USDA’s Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary for 2022 shows that more than 99 percent of products sampled through PDP had residues below tolerances set by EPA. However, testing for persistent environmental contaminants that are no longer used as pesticides in the U.S. showed the presence of certain banned chemicals in some foods.



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USDA Finds Pesticide Residues below EPA Tolerances in 99 Percent of U.S. Fruit, Vegetable Samples

December 27, 2022

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA’s AMS) has found the majority of fruits and vegetables in the U.S. to contain pesticide residues below the tolerances established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to the agency’s Pesticide Data Program (PDP) summary for 2021.


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USDA Releases 2020 Sampling Results from Pesticide Data Program

USDA Releases 2020 Sampling Results from Pesticide Data Program

January 20, 2022

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Pesticide Data Program has announced its 2020 sampling results.


has released its sampling results from 2020.


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