International code of conduct on pesticide management: guidelines on highly hazardous pesticides

Overview

These guidelines are intended to help national or regional pesticide regulators with limited resources to design a process to address HHPs that follows the three steps of identification, assessment and mitigation. They also aim to underscore the importance of adequate pesticide legislation, and risk and needs assessment as part of the registration process.

These guidelines apply to all pesticides, including agricultural, public health, household, amenity and industrial pesticides.

The information in this document is supplemented by other guidelines and tools on the FAO webpages on pest and pesticide management. These include the FAO/WHO Guidelines for the Registration of Pesticides [2010], the FAO/WHO Guidelines on developing a reporting system for health and environmental incidents resulting from exposure to pesticides [2009], the FAO/WHO Guidelines on pesticide legislation [2015] and the FAO Pesticide Registration Toolkit, which provides guidance on risk assessment (Annex II).

This publication was originally published under ISBN 978-92-4-151041-7