Innovative tools for pesticide risk management

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1 Innovative tools for pesticide risk management 10, avenue Buffon Adresse Orléans Cedex 2 France Adresse adresse Igor DUBUS (i.dubus@footways.eu) & Stefan REICHENBERGER Footways

2 What is Footways? Start-up company founded in June 2009 by Igor Dubus (C.E.O.) and Stefan Reichenberger (Senior Research Expert) Mission: provide clients with access to advanced risk management tools for securing water quality in agricultural areas Transfer of technology from higher-tier pesticide risk assessment approaches to the real world Currently 15 staff The family garage in 2008

3 Who do we work for? Public authorities Environmental ministries, Water and risk agencies, Water authorities, regions, counties, councils, towns and villages The private sector Coop, pesticide distributors Food processing industry The private sector Water companies, environmental consultancies Water protection sector Public authorities Ministries for agriculture, extension services Agricultural and food industry sectors 3

4 The Footways tools The Footways tools allow to quantify environmental risks for pesticides and metabolites bring practical solutions and advice to water managers and farmers measure progress made, independently The tools are operational and are being increasingly deployed across the globe

5 The methodology Methodology partly based on risk assessment approaches used in pesticide registration in Europe and the US Basics of the methodology initially developed in the EUfunded research programme Footprint Methodology further improved by Footways from 2009 (internal R&D team)

6 Principle of deployment Climate soils crops Detailed characterisation of the study area identification of unique agro-pedo-climatic combinations List of a.i. MACRO Transfer to depth and drainage systems PRZM Transfer by runoff and erosion Risk indicators 6

7 The Footways supercomputer (October 2011)

8 An innovative approach to modelling The supercomputer has been specifically designed for running pesticide fate models Breakthrough solutions Pre-processing (automated parameterisation routines), model running (handling of millions of runs), postprocessing (calculation of risk indicators, access to daily time series, statistics, maps and web mapping) Industrialisation of bespoke application development Electric supply Cooling

9 Footways risk indicators "PITSA" indicators (Pesticide IndicaTor for a Sustainable Agriculture) Frequency of exceedance of threshold concentrations in water leaving agricultural fields: Drinking water standards Ecotoxicological endpoints or any other threshold concentration Advantages of these indicators Easy to understand Can be used as a target of environmental performance Can be easily aggregated at various levels (PITSA by product, by crop protection programme, by crop, by soil type, by sub-catchment, etc.)

10 Our scales of operation Member states, regions and counties/provinces Catchments Farms and fields Risk assessors / Water quality managers Farmers and extension advisors 10

11 The online risk assessment platform Footways Pro Multilingual web interfaces Outputs in différent forms Parameterisation and modelling activities on the supercomputer

12 Guiding principles in the development of our web solutions Multilingual Turn-key web solutions User friendliness Territories of any size (field to continent) Maximum data resolution Access to the Modul'o platform via 12

13 Modul'o The welcome screen 13

14 Modul'o The control panel The control panel lists all risk assessments available. For unique risk assessment, the user can edit or duplicate an assessment, visualize the results (tabular, statistical or mapping formats) or export the data Through the control panel, the user can also create a new assessment 14

15 Modul'o The new assessment screens The user can specify a new assessment through 4 screens. He/she needs to specify The territory he/she is interested in (here, the whole of France) The crop The active substance (the user can also enter e-fate parameters directly if needed) The application conditions : application date, application rate, drift reducing nozzle or not, vegetative filter strips or not, application frequency 15

16 Modul'o Tabular results The user can access tables with detailed individual results (SW and GW environmental indicators and endpoints) 16

17 Modul'o Graphical results The user can access charts showing individual daily time series for transfer pathways (drift, surface runoff, erosion, leaching, drainage) Information for relevant metabolites is also provided 17

18 Modul'o Mapping results The user can select and visualize maps he/she's interested in (here, an example for France) He can display supporting information (e.g. soil, administrative layers) All geographical information can be downloaded 18

19 Modul'o Statistical results Results can be visualize in the form of cumulative distribution functions 19

20 Example of results obtained for the southern, central and northern zones Country GR ES MT PT IT IE FR SE BE AT UK LU DE FI Risk indicator for SW arising from R&E inputs HU SI LT CZ LV PL SK DK EE NL

21 Relevance for registration The Footways tools have been initially designed to address post-registration matters once pesticides are on the market Context: WFD, SUD, securing of water quality for drinking water supply The tools could be used to undertake pesticide risk assessments to evaluate the potential impact on water resources within a registration context Integration of the diversity in soils / climates / crops in risk assessments The user can simulate fate for one particular country and compare the results to other countries of the registration zone or to other European countries

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