Wild Bee Toxicity Data for Pesticide Risk Assessments

Pesticide Residues in Bee Products

"The man has no divine right over the food. He must compete for this with weeds, diseases, insects and other organisms” (Grodner, 1996). With the above quote, Grodner clearly reflects the situation in the area production and processing of food. More than 10.000 species of insects and mites, 1.500 species of fungi and 600 plant species have been identified as harmful to agriculture (Grodner, 199...

Pesticide Toxicity Index--a tool for assessing potential toxicity of pesticide mixtures to freshwater aquatic organisms.

Pesticide mixtures are common in streams with agricultural or urban influence in the watershed. The Pesticide Toxicity Index (PTI) is a screening tool to assess potential aquatic toxicity of complex pesticide mixtures by combining measures of pesticide exposure and acute toxicity in an additive toxic-unit model. The PTI is determined separately for fish, cladocerans, and benthic invertebrates. ...

Vulnerability Assessments of Pesticide Leaching to Groundwater

Stenemo, F., 2007. Vulnerability assessments of pesticide leaching to groundwater. Doctoral thesis. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 978-91-576-7356-5. Pesticides may have adverse environmental effects if they are transported to groundwater and surface waters. The vulnerability of water resources to contamination of pesticides must therefore be evaluated. Different stakeholders, with different objectives a...

Pesticide acute toxicity reference values for birds.

Photothermal bioanalytical methods for pesticide toxicity testing.

This paper describes bioanalytical methods and biosensors which rely on cholinesterase (ChE) inhibition and can be used to detect and test the toxicity of organophosphate (OP) and carbamate pesticides. Particular attention is given to the combined use of these methods and photothermal detection that has recently led to improved sensitivity and increased sample throughput of ChE bioanalytical as...