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Title: NEW SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON PESTICIDE PROPERTIES: A SUMMARY OF CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Author
item Wauchope, Robert - Don
item BAGDON, JOSEPH - NRCS
item EDWARDS, JESSE - FL A&M UNIV
item FERRISS, IAN - F.A.O.
item SHAW, DAVID - UNIV. OF ALASKA
item UNSWORTH, JOUN - CONSULTANT

Submitted to: International IUPAC Symposium on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/30/2005
Publication Date: 8/12/2005
Citation: Wauchope, R.D., Bagdon, J.E., Edwards, J., Ferriss, I.G., Shaw, D.G., Unsworth, J.B. 2005. New sources of informaiton on pesticide properties: a summary of current activities. (1)International IUPAC Symposium on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins;(2) Picogram (AGRO Division Abstracts).

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: A variety of government agency and NGO projects are in progress designed to provide critical information needed for describing the behavior and fate of pesticide active ingredients in the environment. These are (a) INFOCRIS, a unique FAO open-source, cooperative web-based system which will include (among much other agriculture-related information) pesticide active ingredient chemical properties information developed in cooperation with the IUPAC Agrochemicals Advisory Committee (ACC); (b) the IUPAC "pesticide compendium," a critical review of pesticide physical properties which is a cooperative project of the IUPAC-Environmental Chemistry Division and Analytical Chemistry Division (a presentation on this project in included in the IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Division poster session); (c) the IUPAC "Global Pesticide Information" project of the IUPAC-ACC, which will also provide web-based information on pesticide products; (d) an updating of the ARS/NRCS pesticide properties database slated to be complete in 2005; (e) a cooperative project between USDA-ARS and Florida A. & M. University to develop a critical compilation of pKa and pKb values for acidic and basic pesticides; (f) a new environmental fate pesticide properties database being compiled by the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs. Although there is overlap between these projects, they serve to complement and reinforce each other, and the results will provide a greatly improved database of fundamental property information which will be useful for many purposes, especially environmental impact assessments, risk management and simulation modeling. We will present an overview of the progress and status of each of these projects, with a view toward attracting additional volunteer collaborators to work on some of them.