Celery

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

Human Health Effects:

10Known or Probable Carcinogens4
27Suspected Hormone Disruptors
12Neurotoxins
12 Developmental or Reproductive Toxins

Environmental Effects:

16 Honeybee Toxins5

Pesticide Residues Found in Celery:

What Pesticide? How Often is it Found?6 Conventional vs. Organic Toxicity7 Other Foods with this Pesticide
Chlorantraniliprole 100.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Spinosad 100.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Methoxyfenozide 50.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Permethrin trans 41.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Permethrin cis 39.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Dicloran 36.6% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Cyromazine 36.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Acephate 34.7% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Linuron 30.7% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Chlorothalonil 29.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Imidacloprid 27.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

Other Foods
Acetamiprid 21.9% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Propiconazole 21.9% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Methamidophos 20.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Azoxystrobin 19.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Malathion 19.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Omethoate 17.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Oxamyl 16.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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DDE p,p' 14.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Flonicamid 13.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Pyraclostrobin 11.9% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Oxamyl oxime 11.7% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Propiconazole II 9.9% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Dimethoate 9.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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DCPA 9.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Trifloxystrobin 7.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Propiconazole I 7.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Boscalid 6.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Dinotefuran 4.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Myclobutanil 4.6% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Pyrimethanil 3.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Methomyl 3.7% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Chlorpyrifos 3.3% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Trifluralin 3.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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1-Naphthol 2.9% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Spinosad A 2.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Carbaryl 2.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Endosulfan I 2.0% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Endosulfan II 1.9% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Endosulfan sulfate 1.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Spinosad D 1.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Thiabendazole 1.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Metolachlor 1.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Cycloate 1.3% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Dimethomorph 1.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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DDT p,p' 1.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Cypermethrin 1.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Piperonyl butoxide 1.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Thiamethoxam 0.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Diazinon 0.8% Conventional
vs. Organic

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o-Phenylphenol 0.6% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Dieldrin 0.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Fenamidone 0.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Cyprodinil 0.5% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Fludioxonil 0.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Tebufenozide 0.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Carbendazim (MBC) 0.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Pronamide 0.4% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Iprodione 0.3% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Chlordane trans 0.3% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Pymetrozine 0.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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DDT o,p' 0.2% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Thiobencarb 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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Chlorpropham 0.1% Conventional
vs. Organic

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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 Celery come from test year 2008.

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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