Categories
Cultural practices, physical methods, resistant varieties, biological control, biopesticides and other low-risk synthetic PPPs.
Registration Tools
Assessment of Alternatives
Compare available options when a product is highly hazardous or its risks are difficult to manage.
Assessment of alternatives is particularly relevant when a product is, or may be, highly hazardous, or when its risks are difficult or impossible to manage under local conditions of use.
Principles
Start from the pest problem rather than replacing one product with another, consider all categories and avoid regrettable substitution.
Consultation
Conduct the analysis with farmers, researchers, extension officers, industry, finance providers and civil society.
Five steps
Assess current uses, identify priority crops and pests, identify alternatives, compare viable options and develop an implementation plan.
Decision independence
Alternative identification is participatory, but the registration or re-registration decision remains with the national authority under applicable legislation.
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Registration Strategies
Select an approach suited to available resources, evidence and the regulatory framework of the target country.
Open section02Registration Process
From pre-registration through review, every step supports a structured assessment of the application.
Open section03Data Requirements & Testing
Define the studies needed to demonstrate product efficacy and safety through internationally accepted protocols.
Open section04Assessment Methods
Apply procedures and models suited to each scientific component of the dossier.
Open section05Risk Mitigation
Define effective, practical and communicable measures to reduce health and environmental risks.
Open section06Decision Making
Connect risks, values, alternatives and management measures to reach a regulatory decision.
Open section07Registration Criteria
Verify that the product meets general protection goals and applicable scientific and legislative criteria.
Open section08Assessment of Alternatives
Compare available options when a product is highly hazardous or its risks are difficult to manage.
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