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(M/FF215) A New EPA Pesticide Database for Environmental Fate and Chemistry. Liu, S.1, Libelo, E.1, Shamim, M.1, Holmes, J.1, Pisigan, R.1, Nguyen, T.1, Clem, A.1, Abdel-Saheb, I.1, Shamim, N.1, 1 ABSTRACT- The Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) in EPA has recently developed a new Pesticide Environmental Fate and Chemistry Database. This database, written in Microsoft Access, provides a powerful user-friendly tool to allow government, industry, academia, and the general public to search and sort accurate, reviewed, up-to-date pesticide fate and chemistry information. In order to support the use of pesticides in the U.S., manufactures must submit detailed information on the environmental fate and chemical properties of their active ingredients to the Agency. OPP conducts a thorough technical review of the data before using it to evaluate potential environmental risks. The environmental fate and chemistry information submitted as part of the registration and re-registration processes is being collected and stored in relational database form and will be available on the EPA web site. Currently, OPP has included approximately 250 active ingredients in this database and plans to include more in the future. Although most of the information in the database came from agriculture-use pesticides, non-agriculture pesticides (such as antifoulants and wood preservatives) were also included. This paper will present details of the database structure, the data parameters included (such as physical and chemical properties, biotic and abiotic half-lives in soil and water under various controlled and natural environments, mobility, bioconcentration factor in fish, etc.), and expected uses and applications. Key words: pesticide, environmental fate, environmental chemistry, database |
