Risk mitigation measures (RMM) are important tools to help reduce the exposure of the environment to plant protection products. Typical receptors of interest include groundwater, as well as surface water habitats and in-crop and off-crop terrestrial habitats. The RMM ‘toolboxes’ used by farmers, or recommended by product stewardship experts or agricultural advisers, are full of different types of measures. However, many of these have not yet found their way into the regulatory environmental risk assessment, i.e. they cannot be added to the product label and cannot be used to render a risk assessment acceptable. Several criteria need to be vetted and demonstrated to ensure successful regulatory implementation of proposed RMMs, including technical feasibility, agronomic viability and environmental efficacy.<br/>The current inventory of regulatory acceptable RMMs in the US will be assessed, and the need of further measures, including their potential of implementation into the risk assessment process, will be discussed. Status of regulatory implementation and efforts from other regions of the world will also be presented as it may benefit further discussions.<br/>

Risk mitigation and environmental risk assessment

254th National Meeting (2017)

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