Report on IUPAC TACTRI/COA International
Workshop on Pesticides 2000: Regulation, Monitoring, and Evaluation
3-6 October 2000, Taichung, Taiwan
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Originating project
This workshop drew more than 250 participants from 25 countries. Attendees
included members of key national research institutes and regulatory
agencies, international advisory bodies, agricultural universities,
and agrochemical manufacturers. The workshop was planned by the IUPAC
Commission on Agrochemicals and the Environment (VI.4) and coorganized
by the Taiwan Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research
Institute (TACTRI) and the Taiwan Council of Agriculture (COA).
Workshop
announcement
In addition to sponsorship from IUPAC, TACTRI, and
COA, funding was also provided by the Agrochemical Association of
Taiwan (AAT). The program for the meeting, which included 26 lectures,
40 posters, and discussion sessions, focused on 3 major topics: pesticide
regulation, residue analysis and monitoring, and risk assessment and
management. Countries within the Asia-Pacific area participating in
the conference face significant challenges in implementing and refining
science-based regulatory systems supporting evaluation and safe use
of agro-chemicals.
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Participants at the IUPAC-TACTRI/COA International
Worskop on Pesticides 2000
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The workshop was held at this critical time to highlight international
efforts and harmonized approaches being promoted by IUPAC and other
international advisory bodies and also to foster dialogue between
the key stake-holders within agriculture, government, and the agro-chemical
industry on future directions. In addition to providing a venue for
presentation of the results and recommendations of several recently
completed IUPAC projects, several areas of deficiency regarding methodologies
were identified as the basis for future project proposals within the
Division of Chemistry and the Environment (VI). Conference papers
were published in a book of proceedings, and are available electronically
at the TACTRI web site:
http://www.tactri.gov.tw/.
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