Abstract
Pesticides are
in common use as biocides or plant protection products in almost all areas
where people live and work. They are designed by their action to kill pests, to
protect products from damage or to raise crops for food and feed. They have by
their nature a toxic property and are regulated by a well designed legal
regulation that fills the purpose to counterbalance the desired toxic action on
pests with the level of protection of human health and environment from toxic
damage by pesticides. The process of approval of active compounds and of
formulated products applies technical rules to address hazardous end points and
to set the conditions of tolerable use.
The concept is
only as strong as the data on real use of plant protection products are
collected in a mode that enables control in a reasonable regional dimension.
These data are widely missed. It is unclear whether the allowed conditions of
use are obeyed in reality and whether the high frequency of use of products in
combination or in series (cocktail effect) still meet the goal to prevent
damage. Biodiversity is already strongly impaired and thus ecosystem services
are being lost.
Toxicological experties is needed to transform hazard based concepts to
a risk based modus that focus on sensitive endpoints and takes into account
long term effects that are now visible after decades of pesticide use
References
- H. FOTH, J. WIESE, H. DESEL, N. BASARAN
- Martin Luther University, Halle Saale, Germany Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Abstract
References
- H. FOTH, J. WIESE, H. DESEL, N. BASARAN
- Martin Luther University, Halle Saale, Germany Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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| Publication Date | February 16, 2017 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: Volume 2 Issue: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology |
