USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service has released the 2009 Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary and the data collected that year. It has also has provided an explanatory guide for consumers.
In 2009, surveys were conducted on a variety of foods including fresh and processed fruit and vegetables, beef, catfish, rice, groundwater and treated and untreated drinking water. Twelve states participated in the program during 2009: California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Ohio, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.
The Pesticide Data Program is a partnership between AMS and cooperating state agencies that are responsible for sample collection and analysis of actual levels of pesticide residues found in the U.S. food supply.
Latest from Greenhouse Management
- The Growth Industry Episode 10: State of the Horticulture Industry
- Millennium Pacific Greenhouses launches California Grown Cucumber Program
- Scientists develop vitamin A-enriched tomato to fight global deficiency
- Tennessee Green Industry Field Day scheduled for June 11
- UTIA and UT Knoxville research teams will develop automated compost monitoring system
- Ken and Deena Altman receive American Floral Endowment Ambassador Award
- [SNEAK PEEK] Leading Women of Horticulture: The women of Fairview Greenhouses & Garden Center
- [SNEAK PEEK] Leading Women of Horticulture: The inventive women of TPIE ’26
