Lettuce

52 Pesticide Residues Found by the USDA Pesticide Data Program1,2,3

Human Health Effects:

3Known or Probable Carcinogens4
17Suspected Hormone Disruptors
10Neurotoxins
8 Developmental or Reproductive Toxins

Environmental Effects:

14 Honeybee Toxins5

Pesticide Residues Found in Lettuce:

What Pesticide? How Often is it Found?6 Conventional vs. Organic Toxicity7 Other Foods with this Pesticide
Imidacloprid 36.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Mandipropamide 26.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Propamocarb hydrochloride 22.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Dimethomorph 14.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Cyhalothrin, Total (Cyhalothrin-L + R157836 epimer) 14.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
DCPA 14.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Permethrin cis 13.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Permethrin trans 13.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Fenamidone 10.6% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Boscalid 8.6% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Metalaxyl/Mefenoxam 8.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Cypermethrin 8.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Flonicamid 7.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Spirotetramat 6.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Pyraclostrobin 4.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Methomyl 3.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Endosulfan sulfate 3.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Thiamethoxam 3.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Methoxyfenozide 3.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Endosulfan I 3.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Endosulfan II 2.9% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Acetamiprid 2.7% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Oxydemeton methyl 2.7% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Famoxadone 2.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Azoxystrobin 1.9% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Fluopicolide 1.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Bensulide Oxon (degradate of bensulide) 1.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Methamidophos 1.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Cymoxanil 1.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Cyfluthrin 1.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Trifluralin 1.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Buprofezin 0.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Acephate 0.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Bifenthrin 0.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Oxydemeton methyl sulfone 0.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Linuron 0.3% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Quinoxyfen 0.3% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Oxamyl oxime 0.3% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Iprodione 0.3% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Dieldrin 0.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Trifloxystrobin 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Flutolanil 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Indoxacarb 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Esfenvalerate+Fenvalerate Total 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Myclobutanil 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Vinclozolin 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Bensulide 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Dimethoate 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Dicloran 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Mevinphos Total 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Endrin 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Diazinon 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods


Footnotes

1. Tests for any given food are often conducted in multiple years. In all cases WhatsOnMyFood shows only the most recent test year. The test results for Lettuce come from test year 2011.

2. All pesticide residue results on this page and elsewhere on the WhatsOnMyFood website were obtained by the United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pesticide Data Program (PDP)

3. Punzi, JS, Lamont, M, Haynes, D, Epstein, RL, USDA Pesticide Data Program: Pesticide Residues on Fresh and Processed Fruit and Vegetables, Grains, Meats, Milk, and Drinking Water, Outlooks on Pesticide Management, June, 2005. Available online

4. All toxicological data was either compiled for this site — typically from U.S. EPA reregistration eligibility decisions — or obtained from data compiled for the PesticideInfo website

5. Includes pesticides that are moderately acutely toxic, highly acutely toxic or chronically toxic to honeybees.

6. The percentage found is for all four of the following combinations combined: domestic or imported, and conventional or organic. To see data broken down into each of these combinations separately, click on "Conventional vs. Organic."

7. A pesticide residue may not be listed as carcinogenic, neurotoxic, hormone-disrupting or as a reproductive or developmental toxicant for either of two reasons: (1) it may have been studied for toxicity in one or more of these categories and the weight of the evidence did not support designating it as toxic, or (2) it may not have been studied.

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