Pesticides regulatory status

Surfactants are used primarily as inert ingredients of pesticides, especially in agricultural applications. These surfactants usually have TSCA as well as inert pesticidal regulatory status in the US. Some surfactants are active components in pesticides. For example, the cationic surfactants benzalkonium chloride and didecyl ammonium chloride and their various derivatives are registered as active ingredients in disinfectant products with many household and industrial applications. 

EU the European Union of 28 countries (2013) with 20 official languages, formerly known as the European Community (EC) and originally the European Economic Community. The Biocidal Products Directive and Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances (REACH) determine pesticide regulatory status throughout the EU (http //europa.eu.int/). 

PAN Pesticide Pesticide Action Network North America includes data on 6500 pesticides, insecticides and herbicides, water pollution, ecological toxicity and regulatory status http //www.pesticideinfo.org/... 

Regulatory Status. GRAS for use as adjuvants for pesticide chemicals ( 582.1972, 582.1975). 

Fagerstone, K.A., PJ. Savarie, DJ. Elias, and E.W. Schafer, Jr. 1994. Recent regulatory requirements for pesticide registration and the status of compound 1080 studies conducted to meet EPA requirements. Pages 33-38 in A.A. Seawright and C.T. Eason (eds.). Proceedings of the Science Workshop on 1080. The Royal Society of New Zealand, Misc. Ser. 28. 

Occupational pesticide exposure holds a peculiar status within the field of occupational health and safety, both from a scientific and regulatory perspective. Methods for personal monitoring of dermal exposure first arose in the context of pesticide applications in agriculture, pioneered by scientists in the USA Public Health Service (Batchelor and Walker, 1954 Durham and Wolfe, 1962). These methods gained worldwide recognition in the early 1960s, and remain a component of exposure assessment practice today. This work pre-dated most personal monitoring methods that were developed for industrial workplaces. 

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