EFSA to build pesticide scientific panel

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is seeking experts to be members of its Scientific Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues (PPR).

 

The Panel provides scientific advice on the risk assessment of plant protection products (commonly known as pesticides) and their residues. Panel experts assess risks for users of pesticides, for workers in treated areas, for residents, for consumers of treated food commodities and for wildlife. The Panel also develops new risk assessment approaches, methodologies and models which are then reflected in respective guidance documents. 

 

PPR Panel Members are scientists from across Europe with expertise in:
 

• Active substances – chemical and microbiological (viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc)

• Physical-chemical properties (of plant protection products and their active substances)

• Methods of analysis (of plant protection products and of their residues)

• Toxicology and regulatory toxicology

• Non dietary exposure and risk assessment (of plant protection products)

• Dietary exposure and risk assessment (of residues of plant protection products in food and feed commodities)

• Environmental fate and behaviour (of plant protection products)

• Ecotoxicology

• Ecology and population dynamics

• Ecological/Environmental exposure and risk assessment.