While all pesticides can be dangerous when used inappropriately, highly hazardous pesticides are of particular concern due to the severe adverse effects...
The guidance is intended to be a practical, hands-on tool to assist government inspectors in preparing, conducting, recording, reporting and following-up...
Self-poisoning with pesticides causes up to one in five of the world’s suicides. Pesticide registrars and regulators have a key role to play in suicide...
These guidelines are intended to help national or regional pesticide regulators with limited resources to design a process to address HHPs that follows...
Self-poisoning by pesticide is a widely used method of suicide and one of the most common methods of suicide globally, particularly in low- and middle-income...
Pesticide procurement is a highly specialized and complex subject. Expertise is required to ensure that appropriate high-quality pesticide products...
These guidelines cover the legislative, administrative, organizational and infrastructure (facilities and trained human resources) requirements...
The purpose of this document is to provide general advice on principles and process as well as requirements for registration of pesticides,...
Advertising is the promotion of the sale and use of pesticides by printed and electronic media, signs, displays, gift, demonstration...
This resource tool is intended to assist national programmes and those involved on management of pesticides, and with diagnosis and treatment of pesticide...
The aim of this document is to provide a general guidance for the establishment or strengthening of national pesticide quality control activities,...
The goal of this course is to enable participants to make evidence-based decisions on the safe and judicious use of insecticides in public...
The application of pesticides on crops is necessary to prevent unacceptable losses of the agricultural production. However, their use may pose health risks...
This document provides the specifications for major pesticide application equipment used for control of vectors of diseases. The specification guidelines...
The purpose of this document is to provide a generic model that can be used for risk assessment of larviciding and mollusciciding; it aims to harmonize...
In 2001, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to develop specifications...
The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the principles and practice of defining acceptable quality and equivalence of pesticides, to...
Renewed interest by the international community and Member States in control of malaria vectors and the emergence of vector-borne diseases as a consequence...
Indoor residual spraying is used especially for control of malaria and Chagas disease vectors. However, where indoor residual...
Vector control is an important component of many vector-borne disease control programmes. Its implementation includes targeted, site-specific...
A meeting of the Global Collaboration for Development of Pesticides for Public Health (GCDPP) on the development of guidelines for...
This guide provides information on how to control flying insect pests and vectors of diseases by applying insecticides as space treatments. Space treatments...
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are chemicals that persist in the environment, accumulate in high concentrations in fatty tissues and are bio-magnified...