Europe – North America Soil Geographic Information for Pesticide Studies (ENASGIPS 3.x)
Welcome to the ENASGIPS download site
ENASGIPS is a component of an OECD project to maximize the use of pesticide field dissipation studies by developing harmonized international guidance for conducting the studies and identifying comparable North American and European Ecoregions.
Pesticide regulatory agencies/departments world-wide require data on pesticide field dissipation/accumulation to determine “what happens to a pesticide when it is used according to label directions in a representative use area and when all the factors of transformation and transport are acting together”. Studies should account for total dissipation, i.e., transformation, persistence, leaching, carryover, surface transport, volatilization, plant uptake, transformation products, etc., and also identifies the major dissipation routes.
Under global joint reviews as well as national reviews, field dissipation/accumulation data from studies conducted in foreign countries are submitted to regulatory agencies/departments, with a request to consider accepting them to satisfy country-specific data requirements.
The fate and behaviour of a pesticide in a region depends on environmental factors, such as soils and climate. If these environmental factors are similar between areas, then a pesticide is expected to behave in a similar way in those areas.
This has the potential of reducing the total number of terrestrial field dissipation/accumulation studies required for global joint reviews and registration, which strengthen regulatory decisions and reduce cost for both regulatory agencies and the pesticide industry.
ENASGIPS consists of the following components:
- A tool for identifying Ecoregions with similar soil and climate data
- A tool for site selection based on user defined soil, climate and crop criteria
- A tool for Displaying Crop Density (percentage of land covered by crop) for Canada, United States and the European Union
- A tool for entering User Site coordinates
- A geographic database of soil, climate and crop information
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