Pesticide Label Warning Search
Public metadata search over hosted pesticide label PDFs.
Methodology
The Center identified all end-use pesticide products that had an active Section 3 registration from the EPA's Active Pesticide Product Registration Informational Listing (APPRIL) database. PDFs of every available label of those active registrations (about 93,267) were downloaded from the EPA's Pesticide Product Label System (PPLS) on 2/3/2026. Each document then underwent Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and text extraction. The resulting text was evaluated using a biomedical Natural Language Processing (NLP) workflow combined with keyword-based detection for the predefined terms in the drop-down menu. Labels identified as having those words/phrases in the context of a health warning are searchable in this database.
This data output likely contains some classification errors, which is inherent in any high-throughput analysis. Quality control is recommended.