What’s Detected?

Food × analyte

Imidacloprid on potatoes

2008–2024 · 7 tested years

4,318samples tested
for this analyte
1,059samples with
a detection
24.5%of analyte-tested samples

Testing detected Imidacloprid in 1,059 of 4,318 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: 23.0%, 171 of 744 tested samples2009: 25.4%, 189 of 744 tested samples2015: 46.0%, 325 of 707 tested samples2016: 42.5%, 301 of 708 tested samples2022: 7.9%, 42 of 529 tested samples2023: 3.8%, 27 of 709 tested samples2024: 2.3%, 4 of 177 tested samples200820162024

7 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
200874417123.0%
200974418925.4%
2010Not tested——
2011Not tested——
2012Not tested——
2013Not tested——
2014Not tested——
201570732546.0%
201670830142.5%
2017Not tested——
2018Not tested——
2019Not tested——
2020Not tested——
2021Not tested——
2022529427.9%
2023709273.8%
202417742.3%
Testing panels and detection limits change. These observations do not establish a causal trend.
All results for Potatoes →Imidacloprid across foods →

About these results

Source: USDA Pesticide Data Program. Included annual releases: 2008, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023, 2024.

How we count tests, detections and missing years →

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