Pesticide Data Program

The US Congress funded the Pesticide Data Program (PDP) in order to improve the accuracy of pesticide dietary risk assessments carried out by the US EPA. The USDA s Agricultural Marketing Service carries out the program. As recommended in the 1993 NAS/NRC report, the PDP focuses on the foods consumed most heavily by children and food is tested, to the extent possible, as eaten (Agricultural Market Service, 2004 National Research Council, 1987). For example, banana and orange samples are tested without the peel processed foods are tested as they come out of a can, jar or freezer bag. 

Table 14.4 Number of pesticide residues found by market claim and average number of residues in selected fruits and vegetables tested by the USDA s Pesticide Data Program PDP 2004... 

Agricultural Market Service (2002). Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary Calendar year 2000. US Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. 

USDA (1998) Pesticide Data Program - Annual Summary Calendar Year 1996. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington. 

USDA (1992). Agricultural Marketing Service. Pesticide Data Program - Calendar Year 1991 Report. Washington, DC US Department of Agriculture. 

With respect to residue data, the US procedures have used residue data from monitoring programs extensively. In fact, the Pesticide Data Program was designed specifically to provide data for dietary risk assessment. In contrast, monitoring data are not routinely used for dietary risk assessment in the EU. 

USDA (1996b) Pesticide data program (USDA PDP). Annual summary calendar year 1994. Agricultural Marketing Service, Science and Technology Division, United States Department of Agriculture. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture. Pesticide data program Annual summary calendar year 2004, USDA, Washington, DC, 2006, www.ams.usda.gov/ science/pdp/Summaiy2004pdf... 

U. S. Department of Agriculture Pesticide Data Program-Annual Summary Calendar Year 2000, (2002). 

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