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AgVetLink: Number 56, June 2006

OECD meeting, 30 May - 1 June, Dublin

Principal Adviser (Toxicology) John Reeve has recently returned from an OECD Pesticides Programme’s Registration Steering Group meeting in Dublin. Progress was made on the project to review the paradigm that is currently used in toxicology data requirements and assessment to ensure that unnecessary testing and assessment is not being done. This project has already identified some data that can be deleted from requirements because the toxicity information is available from other core data. The first global work sharing arrangement for the assessment of a new Du Pont pesticide was also finalised. The ground breaking work will start early next year, with New Zealand involved in the assessment of residue data.