Pesticide regulation registration

Pesticide mobility studies, 18 546 Pesticide registration requirements, in the United States, 18 543-550 Pesticide regulation, 18 524, 536-543. See also Pesticide regulations role of international organizations in,... 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for administering the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), pesticide law. FIFRA affects the use of many economically important products including fungicides, herbicides and insecticides, disinfectants and sterilizers, and rodenticides. The key to pesticide regulation is content of the pesticide label and the claims made by the pesticide registrant. 

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. 

FIFRA Sections 3 and 4 pertain to registration and reregistration of pesticides, with clearly defined data requirements as outlined in Tide 40 of the US. Code of federal Regulations (51). About 120 different studies are Hsted, most of which are to be done on technical-grade active ingredients (TGAIs). 

W.G. Fong, Regulatory aspects pesticide registration, risk assessment and tolerance, residue analysis, and monitoring, in Pesticide Residues in Foods Methods, Techniques, and Regulations, ed. W.G. Fong, H.A. Moye, J.N. Seiber, and J.R Toth, WUey, New York, Chapt. 7 (1999). 

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. 

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