FOOTPRINT:: Découvrez FOOT-FS (Echelle de l'exploitation agricole)

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FOOTPRINT :: creating tools for pesticide risk assessment and management in Europe

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Présentation de FOOT-FS

FOOT-FS (FS: Farm Scale) is mainly targeted at EXTENSION SERVICES and FARMERS. The aims of the tool are to:

1) identify the pathways and those areas that most contribute to contamination of water resources by pesticides at the scale of the farm; and,

2) provide site-specific recommendations to limit transfers of pesticides in the local agricultural landscape.

The software, which will be developed as a stand-alone application and as a web portal, will be based on the p-EMA tool which is widely used in the UK to assess the environmental performance of farms. The classification of the agricultural land according to the pathways leading to contamination of water resources by pesticides will be based on a hybrid between the CORPEN and HOST methodologies. The prediction of pesticide concentrations in leaching and runoff/erosion will rely on the deterministic models MACRO and PRZM while simpler, more pragmatic, approaches (e.g. drift lookup tables) will be used for assessing pesticide inputs via spray drift and point sources (storage places, farmyards).

Predicted series of concentrations in surface water will allow risk assessments to be performed for aquatic taxa as FOOT-FS will include a database of ecotoxicological threshold values ('endpoints') for fish, invertebrates (e.g. Daphnia), higher aquatic plants (e.g. Lemna) and algae. Results of the risk assessment will be presented in a detailed or simplified manner depending on whether the information is to be used to illustrate potential environmental risks on the farm or to assess the regulatory significance of the findings.

FOOT-FS will also allow detailed investigations to be made into the influence on pesticide losses of kinetic sorption, the formation and release of bound residues, the formation of metabolites or preferential flow.

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08/08/08: Annual meeting 2008 to take place on 6 & 7 Nov.
31/07/08: Major upgrade of the FOOTPRINT PPDB
01/07/08: FOOT-FS piloting workshops held in 7 EU countries
09/06/08: Stakeholder seminar held in France
26/03/08: Release of FOOTPRINT SUGAR
18/01/08: New paper accepted in PMS
18/12/07: New paper on bound residues accepted in ES&T
15/12/07: New document for policy- and decision-makers
23/11/07: PPTs of the FOOTPRINT annual meeting in Italy available for download
07/09/07: FOOTPRINT special session at Piacenza conference
14/08/07: 2 new papers
24/06/07: French web site
02/04/07: Release of the first project newsletter
29/11/06: Posters available for download
26/09/06: Presentation at the AgChemForum 2006
02/07/06: FOOTPRINT reviews for download
17/05/06: New FOOTPRINT database released
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