EUROPE – COM: Preliminary List of Safeners and Synergists
23 July 2024
The current version of PRIMo (Pesticide Residue Intake Model), revision 3.1, has been updated, and PRIMo revision 4 is now available.
PRIMo is a tool to estimate chronic and acute dietary consumer exposure to pesticide residues in food. It is primarily used for the safety assessments of EU maximum residue levels (MRLs).
Revision 4 is a comprehensive update including important changes:
- Fully online tool used solely through a web interface
- Integration of food consumption data from the EFSA comprehensive food consumption database
- Additional countries and population classes
- Dietary exposure calculations to pesticide residues both in raw primary commodities (RPC), e.g. tomato, and in associated raw primary commodity derivatives (RPCD), e.g. tomato sauce, applying processing factors for the RPCDs
- Information on the distribution of the chronic exposure within relevant population subgroups (i.e. mean exposure of a population subgroup versus higher percentiles)
- Acute exposure calculations to account for individual consumption and body weight
The tool is described in a technical report (Use and underlying principles of the EFSA Pesticide Residue Intake Model (PRIMo), revision 4), and is accessible on the EFSA R4EU platform.
This PRIMo revision 4 is provided to users to try out and become familiar with the new features and the data handling.
It is important to note that PRIMo revision 4 has not been endorsed yet for use in the context of MRL applications/assessments and the evaluation of pesticides. Hence, applicants and risk assessors must continue to use PRIMo revision 3.1 until the new version is formally endorsed, which is expected in 2025.
To download:
Technical report Use and underlying principles of the EFSA Pesticide Residue Intake Model (PRIMo), revision 4
See also our previous articles:
EUROPE – EFSA: Update of the Pesticide Residue Intake Model 3 (PRIMo rev. 3.1)
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