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AgVetLink: Number 61, April 2007

Global Minor Use Summit: Rome 2007

The Food and Agriculture Organisation, US Food and Drug Administration and US Environmental Protection Agency are organising a summit on minor use in early December 2007 in Rome, Italy.

The purpose of the summit is to bring interested parties together to address challenges in specialty crops and minor uses. In particular, the summit will look at residue requirements that can be accepted nationally and internationally, and discuss approaches to harmonise data generation to support national and international maximum residue limits (MRLs).

New Zealand, along with most other countries, struggles to balance the regulatory requirements against the disincentives to pesticide registration and development in the minor use area. In addition to regulators, this summit should be of interest to producer groups and agrichemical companies.

For further information on the summit go to the IR-4 website (http://www.ir4.rutgers.edu/GMUS/index.html).