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Pesticide Residue Monitoring Report and Data for FY 2022

Welcome to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pesticide Residue Monitoring Report and Data for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. The report summarizes the results of FDA’s pesticide monitoring program for FY 2022. Results in the report demonstrate that levels of pesticide residues in the U.S. food supply are well below established safety standards.

2022 Report (PDF: 1.6MB)

The 2022 report is derived from the pesticide residue data provided in the original analytical sample data file (SampleData2022.txt). Three statistical summary files (Product2022.txt, Chemical2022.txt, and CountryProductResidue2022.txt) are also provided. Additionally, six other reference files are included: MethodScope2022.txt, ProdCode.txt, ExtCode.txt, DetCode.txt, Country.txt, and Chemical.txt.

All files must be downloaded for further use. No online search capability is available for these files. The following data files represent only the samples that were analyzed as part of the FDA regulatory pesticide residue monitoring program in FY 2022; no data from the Total Diet Study are included.

The sizes of compressed and expanded files are approximate and are provided so the user can estimate download times and disk space requirements. Information on the structure and content of the data files is described in the User's Manual (PDF: 328 KB).

PLEASE READ THE MANUAL BEFORE USING THE DATA FILES

File Name Size Decompressed File(s) Size Records File Definition
Analytical Data File
SampleData2022.zip 257 KB SampleData2022.txt 3,540 KB 15,817 2022 analytical data for each individual sample, as entered by FDA field analysts
Statistical Summary Files
Product2022.zip 13 KB Product2022.txt 79 KB 937 2022 summary file by country/food combination (without regard to pesticide)
Chemical2022.zip 374 KB Chemical2022.txt 3,651 KB 64,983 2022 summary file by country/pesticide combination (without regard to product)
CountryProductResidue2022.zip 4,518 KB CountryProductResidue2022.txt 93,471 KB 719,369 2022 detailed data by country/food product/pesticide combinations
Reference Files
ReferenceFiles2022.zip 83 KB ProdCode.txt 378 KB 7,834 Reference list of product codes, product descriptions and classification
    ExtCode.txt 1 KB 9 Reference list of method extraction codes and descriptions
    DetCode.txt 1 KB 10 Reference list of method detector codes and descriptions
    Country.txt 2 KB 159 Reference list of countries from which samples are collected
    Chemical.txt 18 KB 821 Reference list of pesticide chemical codes and names
    MethodScope2022.txt 77 KB 2,429 2022 list of pesticides covered by FDA analytical methods

To request further information on the Pesticide Monitoring Database, contact Sara McGrath, Sara.McGrath@fda.hhs.gov.

Please submit general comments or questions through the FDA’s Food and Cosmetics Information Center (FCIC) inquiry form.

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