2012, April: Pesticide registration based on equivalence
On 9 and 10 April 2012 a workshop was organized in Addis Ababa to discuss the FAO/WHO equivalence determination procedure. This procedure can be used to assess whether a pesticide product submitted for registration, or its active ingredient, can be considered equivalent to an already registered pesticide. The objective of the equivalence determination is to facilitate registration of generic pesticides without jeopardizing product efficacy and safety.
The workshop was facilitated by Markus Müller, of the Swiss Federal Research Station at Wädenswil and chairman of the FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Specifications. Staff from the APHRD, the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Agency and the Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise, participated.
During the workshop, the equivalence determination procedure of FAO/WHO was introduced, equivalence determination and evaluation using a number of pesticide cases was exercised, and generic pesticide registration process and procedures based on equivalence determination discussed. It was recommended to further develop a specific registration procedure in Ethiopia based on equivalence.
The main training course presentations are listed below:
