FDA Report - Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program FY 2015

FDA issued their 2015 Pesticide Monitoring Program Report.   Overall, the findings showed low levels of violations, and basically these numbers were similar to the previous year.   It must be remembered that this is targeted sampling...that is, FDA will focus their effort on looking on those items/locations where there is more likely to be an issue.

In comparison of domestic versus imported foods, imported products were more likely to have violative pesticide levels.

For these domestic foods, violative items were from the fruit and vegetables.

For imported foods, in addition to fruits and vegetables, violative foods were found in commodity groups including grains, dairy/eggs, and other.

Looking at which commodities FDA views as 'warranting special attention  - commodities with at least 20 samples analyzed OR with a minimum of 3 violations, AND a violation rate of 10 % or higher.