The Review for Development of The Environmental Pesticide Risk Assessment to Allow Variable Rate Spraying

Can the pesticide risk assessment be developed to ensure it accords more closely with modern farming practice? The current plant protection product (pesticide) risk assessment process estimates exposures of people and the environment to chemicals applied by operators. The exposures are assessed against values known to be protective of human health and adverse environmental impact. The assessment process is commonly based on amounts of pesticide applied per hectare (g/ha or kg/ha). It is assumed, for example, in bro...