EUROPE–EFSA: Release of PERSAM v3.0.8

Published by Adrien Margerit at 16 January 2023

The new version (v3.0.8) of the PERSAM tool to conduct PECsoil calculations in agreement with the EFSA Guidance Document for predicting environmental concentrations of active substances of plant protection products and transformation products of these active substances in soil (EFSA Journal 2017;15(10):4982) was recently released.

Version 3.0.8 includes a change in the 95th weighted concentration percentile selection procedure, a change in the rounding of some parameters in the transfer file and a number of bug fixes.

The list of new features and issues solved in versions v3.0.0 to v3.0.8 can be found in Section 1.2 of the updated PERSAM user manual, which comes with the tool (it can also be downloaded further below).

Further details on the issues can be found in the updated Bug fixing & update report released by EFSA (to be downloaded below).

To download:

PERSAM 3.0.8 can be downloaded via the ESDAC website (a request form should be fulfilled to receive a download link).

PERSAM 3.0.8 user manual: EFSA Supporting publication 2022:EN-1756.

Software tool for calculating the predicted environmental concentrations (PEC) of plant protection products (PPP) in soil for permanent and annual crops: Bug fixing & update report: EFSA Supporting publication 2022:EN-7065.

See also our previous articles:

EUROPE–EFSA: New version of PERSAM tool for PECsoil calculations

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