Category Research project
  • Analytik
  • Toxikologie

Pesticide Metabolites in Drinking Water

Project status
Completed
Project start
May 2024
Project end
Aug 2024
Acronym
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Department
Sicherheit von Pestiziden

Description and Objective

The WHO Guidelines for drinking-water quality (GDWQ) provides the international reference point for the development of drinking-water quality regulations world-wide. The GDWQ are updated through a rolling revision process in response to new evidence, uncertainty about best practice, and requests from stakeholders. The GDWQ are supported by a number of technical resources that provide the evidence base supporting the recommendations in the GDWQ or provide detailed guidance to support effective implementation of WHO recommendations. While the GDWQ covers pesticides, more guidance is needed on evaluating pesticide metabolites. The risks to human health from pesticide metabolites in drinking-water have not been consistently identified by WHO Member States. While WHO has established an assessment scheme to evaluate pesticide metabolites in plants and animal tissues, no equivalent scheme has been developed for assessing pesticide metabolites in water. Establishment of such a framework would help Member States to more consistently assess such risks. This project aims at supporting the development of a WHO framework on assessing pesticide metabolites in drinking-water.

Result

Existing methodologies or frameworks for assessing pesticide transformation products in dingking water or groundwater were identified and collated. A summary of their strength and weaknesses for the drinking water context was prepared and a draft proposal for a framework to asses pesticide metabolites in drinking water was made.
Type of project

Third-party funded project

BFR research focus

Nachweis von Kontaminanten und zur Bewertung chemischer Risiken

Organisational units and partners

Lead specialist group: Toxikologie der Wirkstoffe und ihrer Metabolite (63)
Contact persons: Dr. Carsten Kneuer, Dr. Glenn Lurman, Gyamfi Akyianu

Funding body and grant number

Weltgesundheitsorganisation
WHO APW 203468065

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