This document provides guidance for policy makers on both developing new or selecting existing indicators of risk to human health and the environment from the use of crop protection products (i.e., pesticides). These pesticide risk indicators are tools, based on modelling or actual data from...

This document provides additional detailed guidance on crop field trials conducted according to OECD TG 509 (Testing of Chemicals on Crop Field Trial) and helps in planning the trials and in interpreting the results. The publication is organised in two parts: the core document on guidance for...

This document provides guidance to both industry and regulatory authorities on storage stability for different types of microbial pesticide formulations. It includes guidance on the physical and chemical parameters to be assessed for different formulation types before and/or after the storage...

This document provides guidance on how to conduct terrestrial field dissipation studies to demonstrate the transformation, transport and fate of pesticides under representative actual use conditions when a pesticide product is used according to the label. These field studies can help to...

Plant protection products (PPP) and biocidal products (BP) are designed to be efficacious and unchanged when stored for a period of time following production. This guidance document describes the general storage stability requirements and procedures relied upon when verifying a period of product...

This report presents findings from the 2012 and 2015 OECD surveys on Performance Standards and Related Authorised Label Claims for Microbicides Used in OECD Countries.The primary objective of this questionnaire was to collect information to allow a comparison of the performance standards,...

Minor use is the use of chemical pesticides or non-chemical means of crop protection where the potential use is on a scale not sufficiently large to justify registration of that use from an applicant’s perspective alone. Typically minor uses involve crops grown on a small scale (minor crops)...

This Best Practices Guidance addresses compliance and enforcement issues as they relate to pesticides and associated health and environmental risks. The objective of this document is to provide guidance for promoting and monitoring compliance and for assessing and mitigating risks of...

This document dealing with biological pesticides provides guidance to both industry and regulatory authorities, in the context of applications for the approval of microbial biological control agents (mBCAs), and for the registration of microbial biological control products (mBCPs).

This document is the report of the OECD Seminar on Risk Reduction through Prevention, Detection and Control of the Illegal International Trade in Agricultural Pesticides that took place on 19 May, 2010 at OECD, Paris, France, and was chaired by Dr. Wolfgang Zornbach of the German Federal...