The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service awarded the State of California Department of Pesticide a cooperative agreement worth $763,109 on January 1, 2026, under the Market Protection and Promotion program (CFDA 10.163) to support the Pesticide Data Program.
The state will collect food samples—focusing on those most frequently consumed by infants and children—from within California and ship them to assigned laboratories on an established schedule. The state laboratory will perform chemical analyses on the assigned samples to detect pesticide residues, including parent compounds and metabolites. The state's quality assurance officer will review the residue analysis results and transmit them to PDP as an electronic dataset. All work follows standard operating procedures published on the PDP website. The primary deliverable is provision of the requested samples to the laboratories.
Performance runs from January 1 through December 31, 2026, with work conducted in California. The data generated supports dietary risk assessments by the Environmental Protection Agency, regulatory enforcement of pesticide residue limits by the Food and Drug Administration, trade negotiations by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, and consumer confidence in food safety.