FRANCE: Update of the list of spray drift reduction equipment – May 2017
31 May 2017
EFSA: Issues in physical-chemical properties and analytical methods
31 May 2017
Over the last 30-40 years there has been growing concern regarding the contamination of the environment by pesticides and public concerns regarding their own exposure to pesticides began to gain momentum around the early 2000s. In 2014, the ‘EFSA Guidance on the assessment of exposure of operators, workers, residents and bystanders in risk assessment for plant protection products’ and a spreadsheet calculator to facilitate calculation of exposures were published. The datasets on which the calculations are made are restricted in terms of there being a limited number of studies and incompleteness. Consequently, EFSA have commissioned a study to review and evaluate all published data related to the exposure to pesticides for residents and bystanders and for environmental risk assessment.
This document constitutes the final report for the EFSA project. The overall aim of this project is to collate all published data (predominately peer-reviewed publications supplemented by grey-literature) for the last 25-years relating to resident and bystander exposure to pesticides and to develop and populate a database to support non-dietary exposure assessments for regulatory purposes. More specifically it covers the following 4 themes:
- Resident and bystander exposure to pesticides;
- Air concentrations (vapours and aerosols) of plant protection substances;
- Drift values from spray, seed and granular applications both in the field and undercover;
- Dislodgeable foliar residues.
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