What’s Detected?

Food × analyte

Fipronil on potatoes

2008–2024 · 6 tested years

3,138samples tested
for this analyte
37samples with
a detection
1.2%of analyte-tested samples

Testing detected Fipronil in 37 of 3,138 potatoes samples actually tested for this analyte. This percentage uses analyte-tested samples, not all 7,191 samples of this food.

Year-by-year results

Actual tested and detected sample counts.

0%25%50%75%100%2008: 0.0%, 0 of 308 tested samples2015: 3.1%, 22 of 707 tested samples2016: 2.0%, 14 of 708 tested samples2022: 0.0%, 0 of 529 tested samples2023: 0.1%, 1 of 709 tested samples2024: 0.0%, 0 of 177 tested samples200820162024

6 tested years between 2008 and 2024. Gaps mean no validated tests in this release.

Read the yearly counts
Percentages use the samples actually tested in each year.
YearTestedDetectedRate
200830800.0%
2009Not tested——
2010Not tested——
2011Not tested——
2012Not tested——
2013Not tested——
2014Not tested——
2015707223.1%
2016708142.0%
2017Not tested——
2018Not tested——
2019Not tested——
2020Not tested——
2021Not tested——
202252900.0%
202370910.1%
202417700.0%
Testing panels and detection limits change. These observations do not establish a causal trend.
All results for Potatoes →Fipronil across foods →

About these results

Source: USDA Pesticide Data Program. Included annual releases: 2008, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023, 2024.

How we count tests, detections and missing years →

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