Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 13.11.1998

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Open Meeting

There will be a two-day meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) to review a set of scientific issues being considered by the Agency in connection with methodology for conducting comparative ecological risk assessments, developmental neurotoxicity study (a retrospective analysis), and a status report on use of the FQPA 10x safety factor. The Agency will present methods for comparing the potential ecological risk of pesticides used on similar crop sites. Risk indices or quotients are calculated and the results are compared to established levels of concern (LOCs). The resultant exceedances are used to rank pesticides and use sites. In addition, since numerous calculations are made using a range of use rates and toxicity values, pesticides and their use sites are compared based on frequency distributions of LOC exceedances. The comparisons include acute and chronic endpoints for terrestrial and aquatic organisms, as well as incident reports and information on extent of use. Pesticide specific ecotoxicology data and environmental fate and transport data are used in the analysis. Mod