Popular Links
Featured Links
- Community Guide to Recognizing and Reporting Pesticide Problems
- Complaints
- Compliance assistance for employers
- Decisions pending and opportunities for public participation
- Environmental Justice
- How to get a license or product registration
- Information for physicians
- School IPM
- Structural Pest Control Board
Reference Links
Food Safety Information & Links
DPR’s food safety program focuses on pesticide residues in food. The broader topic of food safety includes protecting food from microbial, chemical, and physical hazards that could harm consumers’ health. Links to selected governmental web sites on overall food safety are provided below.
Residue data & reports
- DPR: Pesticide residues in fresh produce, annual reports & downloadable data from DPR’s residue monitoring program
- USDA: Pesticide Data Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture residue monitoring
- FDA: Residue monitoring reports, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
About residue testing
- Pesticides and Food: How We Test for Safety, PDF (130 kb) - DPR fact sheet
- Setting Tolerances for Pesticide Residues in Food - U.S. EPA fact sheet
Related links
- FoodSafety.gov - U.S. portal to government food safety information
- Food Safety Research Information Office - U.S. Department of Agriculture links to residue data information
- Medline Plus Food Safety Information - National Library of Medicine
- Microbiological Data Program (MDP) - U.S. Department of Agriculture monitoring of food-borne pathogens
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Mike Papathakis
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Telephone: (916) 445-4023
Fax: (916) 445-3907
E-mail: mpapathakis@cdpr.ca.gov