USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service posted the data from the 2013 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) annual summary, which confirmed the overall pesticide chemical residues found on the tested foods are at levels below the tolerances established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and do not pose a safety concern.
According to USDA, the survey revealed that more than 99 percent of products sampled had residue levels below EPA tolerances. Residues exceeding the tolerance were detected in 0.23 percent of the samples tested.