ERI: Environmental risk index. A simple proposal to select agrochemicals for agricultural use

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dc.contributor.authorAlister, C
dc.contributor.authorKogan, M
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T01:06:21Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T01:06:21Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractAgricultural production must respond to high-quality and improved environmental requirements. To choose adequate pest control strategies, it is necessary that there is knowledge to enable management of many agrochemicals parameters that offer sufficient information to take correct decisions. However, information about leaching, persistence, chronic and acute toxicology parameters, bioconcentration and others are hard to perform and analyze for persons without knowledge related with agrochemicals. The Environmental Risk Index (ERI) reported here permits the usage of available parameters of each different agrochemical. These include persistence (DT50), leaching, volatility, octanol-water coefficient (K-ow), reference dose (Rfd), lethal dose (LD50) for non-target organism (mammals, birds, aquatic animals and insects). These can be compared in a simple way for many agrochemicals and ranked according to environmental risk. To assess the use of this index, ERI values were calculated for several agrochemicals used in USA and Europe and related to their detection in ground and surface water. These showed good correlations. This result allows consideration of the ERI as a useful screening tool to incorporate the environment into local or regional regulations and change criteria for individual agrochemical use according to soil, weather or crop management condition. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.cropro.2005.04.006
dc.identifier.eissn1873-6904
dc.identifier.issn0261-2194
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2005.04.006
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/96141
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000235093200002
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final211
dc.pagina.inicio202
dc.revistaCrop protection
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectenvironment
dc.subjectrisk index
dc.subjectleaching
dc.subjecttoxicology
dc.subjectagrochemical
dc.subject.ods02 Zero Hunger
dc.subject.odspa02 Hambre cero
dc.titleERI: Environmental risk index. A simple proposal to select agrochemicals for agricultural use
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen25
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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