Institut für ökologische Chemie, Pflanzenanalytik und Vorratsschutz
Scientific plant protection products risk assessment relating to side-effects on beneficial arthropodes (other than bees) should enable a selection of plant protection products within the integrated pest management, which are harmless to beneficial arthropodes. The variety-specified labeling of the plant protection products classifying the degree of harmfulness into not harmful, slightly harmful and harmful for beneficial arthropodes (except bees), which is done by the department of Ecological Chemistry, Plant Analysis and Stored Product Protection of the Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), is, however, assigned by the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) as a group-specific summary like "Populations of Relevant Predatory Mites and Spiders" or "Populations of Relevant Beneficial Insects". To facilitate the access to species-specific evaluation of each plant protection product an online database will be developed under the homepage of the JKI, covering the topic of Beneficial-arthropodes-friendly Plant Protection. The database will provide further information about the procedure of the classification as well as relevant beneficial arthropodes and their importance on the agricultural system. Professional users of plant protection products, crop consultants and allotment gardeners as well as the general public are the target groups of this database.
Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity
