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AB 2587: Food and agriculture: pesticide residue monitoring program.
What AB 2587 does, verified February 24, 2026
This bill aims to improve the pesticide residue monitoring program in California. The program, currently mandated by law, is intended to determine which pesticides are most likely to leave a residue on produce and assess the effectiveness of monitoring. The law requires the program's results to be released in comprehensive summaries, which include information on the county where unprocessed foods have been found to contain illegal pesticide residue levels, the type of commodity, and the county where it was produced. This bill makes nonsubstantive changes to the latter provision, aiming to enhance the transparency and effectiveness of the monitoring program.
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Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 20, 2026 · 369 words
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2587
| Introduced by Assembly Members Tangipa and Alanis |
February 20, 2026 |
An act to amend Section 12532 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to pesticides.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2587, as introduced, Tangipa. Food and agriculture: pesticide residue monitoring program.
Existing law requires the Director of Pesticide Regulation to conduct a pesticide residue monitoring program for produce destined for processing to determine which pesticides are most likely to leave a residue and to what extent it is necessary to monitor the produce. Existing law requires the director to continuously interpret the results of the pesticide residue monitoring program in order to assess its general effectiveness at preventing public exposure to illegal pesticide residues, to release comprehensive summaries of the results of the pesticide residue monitoring program, and to identify in the reports the specific county where unprocessed agricultural foods have been discovered to contain illegal pesticide residue levels, the specific commodity, and the county where the commodity was produced, as specified.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that latter provision.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 12532 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read:12532.
(a) The director shall continuously interpret the results of the pesticide residue monitoring program in order to assess its general effectiveness at preventing public exposure to illegal pesticide residues.(b) The director shall release to the public, on an annual basis, comprehensive summaries of the results of the pesticide residue monitoring program. The director shall disclose information regarding the disposition of products found to contain illegal pesticide residue levels.
(c) The director shall identify in his or her the reports the specific county where unprocessed agricultural foods have been discovered to contain illegal pesticide residue levels, the specific commodity, and the county where the commodity was produced.
(d) The director shall file copies of all data sheets for over tolerances with the commissioner for the county where the unprocessed agricultural foods have been grown.
(e) The director shall include in the reports, in addition to the specific commodity affected, the pesticide identified for each illegal residue found.
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