The Pesticide Data Program (PDP) is a program initiated in 1991 by the Agricultural Marketing Service division of the

United States Department of Agriculture The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and producti ...

(USDA). The PDP is empowered to collect

pesticide Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests. They include herbicides, insecticides, nematicides, fungicides, and many others (see table). The most common of these are herbicides, which account for approximately 50% of all p ...

residue data on selected food commodities, primarily fruits and vegetables. PDP produces an annual summary; the last such summary for 2016 data was released in early 2018. PDP data are used by the EPA to support its dietary risk assessment process and pesticide registration process, by the

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to refine sampling for enforcement of tolerances; by the

Foreign Agricultural Service The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is the United States Foreign Service#Foreign affairs agencies, foreign affairs agency with primary responsibility for the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) overseas programs – market develop ...

, to support export of U.S. commodities in a competitive global market; by the Economic Research Service to evaluate pesticide alternatives; and by the public sector to address food safety issues.

References

*{{CRS, article = Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition, url = http://ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/05jun/97-905.pdf, author= Jasper Womach https://www.ams.usda.gov/press-release/usda-releases-2016-annual-pesticide-data-program-summary

External links

PDP homepage

Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary, Calendar Year 2009
Pesticide organizations United States Department of Agriculture