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(77-05) Pesticide Fate and Chemistry Database for Risk Assessment. 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 Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, USA, Washington DC, Washington DC, USA ABSTRACT- The Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) in EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has modified the recently-developed Pesticide Environmental Fate and Chemistry Database. The new database version, written in Microsoft Access, provides a powerful and 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 and reviewed by the Agency is being collected and stored in relational database form and will be available on the EPA web site. 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 input 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, field dissipation, aqueous availability, special leaching, etc.), and the applications. Key words: pesticide, fate, chemistry, database |
