REACH Specific Environmental Release Categories for Plant Protection Product Applications.

ABSTRACT: The European Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation requires that quantitative environmental risk assessment is carried out for hazardous substances used as coformulants in plant protection products (PPPs), if registered above 10 t/y. The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) has developed generic exposure scenarios and specific environmental release categories (SpERCs) to support these risk assessments. The SpERCs offer refinements to the default release factors defined in environmental release categories (ERCs) and are intended to be used with nested multimedia mass balance models as part of the assessment of regional predicted environmental concentrations. Based on the application method of PPPs, 2 scenarios were defined for which S

SUBMITTER: Dobe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7317189 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature