Pesticide Residues Found in Spinach:

What Pesticide?	How Often is it Found?5	Conventional vs. Organic	Toxicity6	Other Foods with this Pesticide
Imidacloprid	71.9%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Permethrin cis	56.5%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Permethrin trans	56.1%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Spinosad	38.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
DDE p,p'	34.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Pyraclostrobin	23.7%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Cyromazine	17.1%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Cypermethrin	15.4%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Omethoate	13.0%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Azoxystrobin	11.3%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
DCPA	9.1%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
DDT p,p'	8.7%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Acetamiprid	7.3%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Methomyl	7.1%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
DDT o,p'	5.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Endosulfan sulfate	4.9%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Methoxyfenozide	4.9%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Thiabendazole	3.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Boscalid	3.6%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Dicloran	3.3%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Chlorpyrifos	3.0%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Dimethoate	2.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Pymetrozine	2.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Linuron	2.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Acephate	2.6%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Dimethomorph	2.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Bifenthrin	1.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Carbaryl	1.6%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Cyhalothrin, Lambda	1.4%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Carbendazim (MBC)	1.4%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Iprodione	1.4%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Endosulfan II	1.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Trifluralin	1.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Pirimiphos methyl	1.1%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Metribuzin	1.1%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Pyrimethanil	0.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Pentachloroaniline (PCA)	0.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Cycloate	0.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Piperonyl butoxide	0.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Metalaxyl	0.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Methamidophos	0.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Diazinon	0.8%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Cyhalothrin, epimer R157836	0.7%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Endosulfan I	0.6%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Malathion	0.6%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Etoxazole	0.6%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Cyhalothrin, Total (Cyhalothrin-L + R157836 epimer)	0.6%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
3-hydroxycarbofuran	0.6%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Metolachlor	0.4%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Chlordane cis	0.4%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Thiacloprid	0.3%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
DDD o,p'	0.3%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Tebufenozide	0.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Cyfluthrin	0.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Diazinon oxon	0.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Chlordane trans	0.2%	Conventional vs. Organic		Other Foods
Dieldrin	0.2%	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 Spinach come from test year 2006.

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. 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."

6. 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.