Regional pesticide database
April 2025
Metadata
Publisher
Department of Soil and Environment
Funding agency
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Keywords
plant protection products, pesticides, agriculture, herbicides, fungicides, spraying, crop protection, environmental toxins, neonicotinoids, pyrethroids, insecticides, glyphosate, streams, rivers, water, groundwater, wells, lakes
File format
json, txt, xlsx, scb, html, PX
Limitations with regard to usage
- The database does not cover all sampling at regional level.
- Samples are not collected at fixed sampling points.
- The exact geographical location of sampling points is often missing.
- The number and type of substances analysed varies between sampling events and years.
- Chemical analyses were carried out by different laboratories and, among other things, detection limits, quantification limits and measurement uncertainty vary.
Data access service
REST, SOAP
Subject area
Habitat type
Swedish environmental objectives
The regional pesticide database contains data from regional environmental monitoring of chemical pesticides. Pesticide concentrations in water from rivers, streams, lakes, seas, groundwater, wells and waterworks have been analysed by municipalities, county administrative boards and water management associations around Sweden.
The Regional Pesticide Database was created in 1996 to try and collate results from all pesticide sampling in Swedish waters. Data in the database comes from sampling carried out between 1983 and 2016.
Download data
Data can be downloaded from Datasearch - Regional Pesticide Database (RPD).