Europe pesticide registration requirements

Endocrine chemical programs in both the USA and Europe are attempting to screen, identify and test chemicals capable of causing this effect. Many pesticides are contained on screening recommendation lists and some form of this testing is likely to become a part of pesticide registration requirements. 

Field residue data, which are generated to meet requirements in the pesticide registration process, are used to regulate the use of agriculture products within the European Union (EU). This article examines the best practices to conduct crop field trials and to generate crop residue samples in Europe in order to provide part of the data that the agrochemical producers of the active ingredients must provide to the EU Commission. 

Integrating the data requirements in European countries, which concentrate alternatively on different registration aspects, reflecting the influence and interest of individual officials, I am not in a position to say that they are less exhaustive than in the USA, as Hahn ( ) did when he reviewed pesticide regulation in Europe in 1972. However, I feel that certainly the political and legal possibilities and perhaps the status of the authorities to apply the flexibility of the regulations in individual cases are still more favorable in Europe than e.g. presently in the U.S. 

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