GeoPEARL is a spatially distributed model describing the fate of pesticides in the soil–plant
system. It calculates the drainage of pesticides to local surface waters and the leaching into …

BACKGROUND: As part of the Dutch authorisation procedure for pesticides, an assessment
of the effects on aquatic organisms in surface waters adjacent to agricultural fields is …

Agricultural use of plant protection products can result in exposure of bystanders, residents,
operators and workers. Within the European Union (EU) FP7 project BROWSE, a tool based …

Highlights•BROWSE model with defaults predicts higher exposures than older regulatory
models.•BROWSE with defaults predicts lower exposures than the new EFSA …

In the Netherlands, a spatially distributed version of the pesticide fate model PEARL is
routinely used to assess the leaching potential of pesticides to groundwater. Recently, the …

Groundwater monitoring is the highest tier in the leaching assessment of plant protection
products in the EU. The European Commission requested EFSA for a review by the PPR …

In the new Dutch decision tree for the evaluation of pesticide leaching to groundwater,
spatially distributed soil data are used by the GeoPEARL model to calculate the 90th …

A methodology is developed to quantify the uncertainty in a pesticide leaching assessment
arising from the spatial variability of non-georeferenced parameters. A Monte Carlo analysis …

Om duurzame gewasbescherming te bereiken heeft de overheid in de nota Duurzame
gewasbescherming meerdere doelen geformuleerd voor het oppervlaktewater. Geen van …

Persistence in soil is one of the evaluation aspects of plant protection products. However,
except for trigger values indicating persistence in soil, there is no broadly accepted …