Pesticide Registration Toolkit
The FAO Pesticide Registration Toolkit is a decision support system for pesticide registrars in low and middle income countries. It will assist registrars in the evaluation and authorization of pesticides. The Toolkit can best be considered as a web-based registration handbook intended for day-to-day use by pesticide registrars.
Registration staff can use the Toolkit to support several of their regular tasks, including: finding data requirements, evaluating technical aspects of the registration dossier, choosing an appropriate pesticide registration strategy and procedures, reviewing risk mitigation measures and getting advice on decision making.
The Toolkit also links to many pesticide-specific information sources such as registrations in other countries, scientific reviews, hazard classifications, labels, MRLs and pesticide properties.
Main components of the Toolkit
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Free self-paced & certified e-learning courses on the Pesticide Registration Toolkit and Highly Hazardous Pesticides
The FAO Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) and FAO elearning Academy, together with the European Union, the Swedish Chemicals Agency, and the partners of Inter-Organization Programme for the sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC): UNITAR, the World Bank, ILO, WHO, OECD, UNDP, UNIDO and FAO, are extremely pleased to announce the publication of the two elearning courses:
- Highly Hazardous Pesticides (https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=901)
- Pesticide Registration Toolkit (https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=936)
The courses are certified and available free of charge, as a global public good, through the FAO elearning Academy.