How we count, and where the record has gaps
Decisions based on registration data are only as good as the counting behind them. These are the rules we follow.
What is covered
Every pesticide product registered with the US Environmental Protection Agency: agricultural and non-agricultural uses, biologicals, antimicrobials, sanitisers and disinfectants. That includes products sold under distributor labels, which we link back to the product they are based on, and changes of ownership between companies. Labels can be read, including older scans, and earlier label versions are kept so you can see what changed. New and changed records are picked up every day.
Active products, each counted once
Every count, list, ranking and comparison is based on products that are registered today. Cancelled and inactive products are left out, so a portfolio reflects what a company can sell now.
A product counts once, however many label versions it has had. That sounds obvious, but it is easy to get wrong: counting label versions instead of products inflates the market several times over. Distributor labels are counted separately, because they are sold under another brand but rest on someone else's registration.
By that rule, the register holds about 20,000 active products from about 1,850 companies, plus about 38,000 active distributor labels from about 910 distributors (October 2026).
Every answer has a source
Counts, lists and rankings come from the registration records themselves. The AI's role is to understand the question and explain the result in plain language. When it adds general background, it labels it as such and keeps it apart from the figures. Answers point back to the records they are based on.
Where the public record is incomplete
Dantive can only be as complete as what EPA publishes. Two things worth knowing:
- For many products registered since spring 2026, EPA has published little or no coding of target pests and use sites. Questions about pests and sites are therefore less complete for the newest products.
- Some EPA records contain formatting errors or empty fields at source. We tidy obvious formatting problems but do not invent missing values.
What Dantive is not
Dantive is decision support for internal business use. It is not regulatory or legal advice, and it is not connected to or endorsed by EPA. Where a Dantive output and the official record differ, the official record wins.