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Project
Chemistry
and the Environment Division (VI)
Number: 2002-046-1-600
Title: Pesticides: Harmonization
of data requirements and evaluation. An IUPAC-Korean Society of
Pesticide Science (KSPS) Workshop, Seoul, Korea, 13-16 October 2003
Task Group
Chairman: Yong-Hwa
Kim
Members: Ken
Racke, Graham
Roberts, Alan Browning, Byung-Youl Oh, Jon-Se Park, Dae-Whang
Kim, Jae-Chul Chun, Suk-Hun Kyung, Byung-Hoon Song, and Woon-Hong
Choi
Completion Date: 2003 - porject
completed
Objective:
This workshop will be an important way to encourage exchange of
the latest information regarding harmonized approaches for scientific
and regulatory evaluation of pesticides including environmental
chemistry, ecotoxicology, and risk assessment. Of particular emphasis
will be ensuring that conclusions and recommendations from recently
completed and ongoing projects of the IUPAC Chemistry and the Environment
Division dealing with evaluation of technical product impurities,
chronic dietary exposure, acute dietary exposure, and transgenic
crops are widely communicated in a region in which pesticide regulations
are at an early state of development. This is an opportunity for
IUPAC to partner with national and regional research scientists,
regulatory authorities, and industry in a major technology exchange
event that translates IUPAC recommendations from the pages of Pure
and Applied Chemistry to practical reality and application.
Description:
The theme of the workshop is "Harmonization of Data Requirements
and Evaluation". The IUPAC Advisory Committee on Crop Protection
Chemistry seeks to advance research understanding and promote environmental
stewardship and human safety with agrochemicals through its projects,
publications, and technology exchange events (congresses, workshops).
The workshop, planned for 2 days, will include both keynote lectures,
discussions, and poster presentations. Contributions will be organized
into 3 main divisions, with planned topics for each listed below:
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Pesticide Regulation and Standard Establishment
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Residue Analysis and Monitoring
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Risk Assessment and Management
The workshop will be centrally located at a hotel/conference center
in Seoul, Korea. A total of 25-30 speakers/discussion leaders will
be involved, with 15 to be IUPAC-affiliated. Attendance is estimated
at 300-400, with approximately one-third from countries outside
Korea.
> Announcement
- Chem. Int. 25(2),
2003
<http://www.iupac-ksps.org/>
Progress:
More than 300 scientists, government regulators, and industry
leaders representing 28 countries gathered in Seoul, Korea during
October 13 to 15 to participate in the IUPAC-KSPS International
Workshop on Pesticides 2003. Participants in the 3-day workshop
had the opportunity to attend 33 invited lectures and view approximately
100 posters. Main program topics included "Pesticide Regulatory
Harmonization", "Residue Behavior and Fate", and
"Risk Assessment and Management". In addition to many
fine scientific presentations from regional experts, the program
included 12 IUPAC lecturers from the IUPAC SubCommittee on Crop
Protection Chemistry who highlighted the findings and recommendations
of a number of recently concluded and ongoing IUPAC projects. Lecturers
from other international organizations represented OECD, FAO, the
International Atomic Energy Agency, and Codex. A final workshop
discussion session highlighted a series of overall observations
and future considerations, and these are listed below:
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First, the high quality research and monitoring
activities occurring within Korea and the surrounding countries
were highlighted.
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Second, the highly valuable and applicable nature
of international approaches and standards was emphasized.
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Third, issues pertaining to pesticide residues
and maximum residue limits (MRLs) were very much highlighted.
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Fourth, the highly valuable nature of cooperative
approaches to research and regulation was evident from some key
examples.
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Fifth, the meeting opened with and returned several
times to the issue of transparency and risk communication regarding
pesticide evaluation and risk management.
Regarding communication of IUPAC-KSPS workshop outcomes, a book
of proceedings containing contributed papers was distributed to
all participants. Slide presentations from the presented lectures
are also being made available via CD-ROM. Finally, some popular
and trade publications are also in the process of making simplified
summaries of key workshop presentations available on a broader scale.
Members of IUPAC who participated in the workshop will be continuing
to cultivate contacts established during the meeting, and ideas
for several new project areas are under investigation as potential
new IUPAC project
Project completed
> see workshop report published in Chem.
Int.
Jan 2004
Last update: 7 November 2003
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