2016-2017: Review of
published data on exposure to pesticides for residents and bystanders
(Ref. OC/EFSA/PRAS/2015/05)
Over
the last few years public consultations, policy development and
research has been undertaken to develop a harmonised approach across
the EU to pesticide exposure assessments for operators, workers,
bystanders and residents. In 2014 EFSA published a guideline document
to help risk assessors, researchers and industry to calculate the risk
to those exposed to pesticides through their work or physical
proximity. However, the dataset available for the assessments is
limited having many gaps and being based on few studies some of which
were conducted 30 years or more ago. The aim of this project was to
undertake several systematic reviews to collate data and evaluate it in
terms of its quality and suitability for upgrading this dataset. Data
collated was related to resident and bystander exposure; daily
pesticide air concentrations; pesticide drift values and data relating
to dislodgeable foliar residues. To support data management data was
stored in a relational database and bespoke software developed to
facilitate database population, retrieval and interrogation.
Publications
- Lewis, K.A. & Tzilivakis, J. (2017). Review
of the published exposure data to pesticides for residents and
bystanders, and for environmental risk assessment: Final report. EFSA
supporting publication 2017:EN-1204, 101 pp. DOI
Contact
Prof Kathy Lewis
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