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Pesticides: new default values proposed for dermal absorption

EFSA has published new guidance on dermal absorption of plant protection products (PPPs). The guidance proposes default values to be used in the absence of experimental data for the risk assessment of active substances used in PPPs. The document,...

3 July 2017

Pesticides guidance aims to harmonise field testing

New pesticides guidance has been finalised that harmonises the way terrestrial field dissipation studies (TFDs) are conducted in different regions of the world. The guidance was...

Pesticides

1 March 2016
Pesticides: breakthrough on cumulative risk assessment

EFSA and its European partners have taken a major step forward in their work on assessing the cumulative risks from exposure to pesticides. A software tool has been developed for...

Pesticides

27 January 2016
Glyphosate: EFSA responds to critics

EFSA has replied to criticism of the EU assessment of glyphosate that was overseen by the Authority last year. Christopher Portier sent a letter to Vytenis Andriukaitis, the EU...

Pesticides

13 January 2016
Pesticides and bees: EFSA to update neonicotinoid assessments

EFSA is to update its assessments of the risks to bees posed by three neonicotinoid pesticides. The new evaluations of clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid were requested by...

Pesticides

11 January 2016
Glyphosate: background documents published

EFSA has published the background documents relating to its peer review of glyphosate. These are: the EFSA peer review report, containing the comments received during the different...

Pesticides

19 November 2015
Glyphosate: EFSA updates toxicological profile

EFSA and the EU Member States have finalised the re-assessment of glyphosate, a chemical that is used widely in pesticides. The report concludes that glyphosate is unlikely to pose a...

Pesticides

12 November 2015
Glyphosate conclusion to be published next week

EFSA will publish the EU peer review of the active substance glyphosate on 12 November in line with previous communication on EFSA’s website. Peer review in the EU In the EU, active...

Pesticides

3 November 2015
EFSA’s advances in assessing potential endocrine disrupting pesticides

EFSA’s scientists have recently made significant strides in addressing the issue of potential “endocrine disruptors” in pesticides. Their work is a response to recent EU rules that...

Pesticides

23 September 2015
Risk to bees from fipronil: call for data

EFSA is calling on national authorities, research bodies, industry and other interested organisations to submit new information related to the risk to bees from the insecticide...

Pesticides

1 September 2015

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