Harmonization of Guidance for Terrestrial Field Studies of Pesticide Dissipation Under the North American Free Trade Agreement

Book excerpt: This document presents the harmonized guidance for the conduct of terrestrial field studies of conventional pesticide dissipation to satisfy the Pest Management Regulatory Agency's environmental chemistry and fate date requirements. This harmonized guidance was developed jointly with the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Technical Working Group on Pesticides. It builds upon the guidance published in Trade Memorandum T-1-255, Environmental Chemistry and Fate Guidelines for Registration of Pesticides in Canada. The guidance document, entitled NAFTA Guidance Document for Conducting Terrestrial Field Dissipation Studies, represents the field dissipation studies which are conducted to demonstrate the transformation, transport and fate of pesticides under representative actual use conditions. The objective of this document is to help ensure that TFD studies are conducted in a manner that will provide risk assessors and risk managers with more confidence in the data generated and with a better understanding of the assumptions and limitations of the data and estimated half-lives of the chemical.