FDA found that pesticide residue levels remain low in 2019, consistent with trends over the past 8 years

The FDA has issued its annual Pesticide Residue Monitoring program report FY 2019. FDA tested for 812 pesticides and industrial chemicals across 4,692 total samples, and the majority of samples had pesticide residues below the limits set by the EPA. These results are consistent with the trend of low pesticide residue violations over the past 8 years. The FDA found that 98.7% of the 1,258 domestic and 89.1% of the 3,069 imported samples complied with federal pesticide residue standards. They found no pesticide chemical residues in 42.4% of domestic and 49.4% of imported human food samples. From 365 animal food samples, the FDA found that 98.4% of the 127 domestic and 95.4% of the 238 imported samples complied. They also found no pesticide chemical residues in 40.9% of the domestic and 43.7% of the imported animal food samples. The FDA also analyzed 153 samples of domestic milk, shell eggs, honey, and game meat for pesticides. None of the samples had a pesticide residue violation except for honey, where we found 2 violative samples out of the 62 samples collected. Overall, 88.9% of the samples from this focused assignment contained no residues. @ https://www.fda.gov/food/cfsan-constituent-updates/fy-2019-pesticide-report-consistent-trends-over-past-8-years-pesticide-residue-levels-remain-low?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery