2012, December: Workshop on Proposed Risk Evaluation Procedure tested with pilot compounds

In this workshop the proposed evaluation method to assess the risks for human health (of operators and workers, as well as of consumers) and for the environment was tested for a combination of 6 compounds and crops, used in Ethiopia. These combinations had been selected as being combinations that possibly bear risks for consumers or for drinking water production from surface water or from groundwater. Staff from the so-called dossier team of the APHRD, Animal and Plant Health Regulatory Department, of the Ministry of Agriculture of Ethiopia was trained by staff from Alterra and the Ctgb, Board for the Authorization of Pesticides and Biocides of the Netherlands. Thereafter the proposed procedure was amended and extended to form the future Evaluation manual for the APHRD.