PAN Pesticide Database
The PAN Pesticide Database is the largest, most comprehensive collection of pesticide data in the world, including information about 5,100 pesticide active ingredients, pesticide breakdown products and related chemicals.
PAN Pesticide Database
The PAN Pesticide Database is the largest, most comprehensive collection of pesticide data in the world, including information about 5,100 pesticide active ingredients, pesticide breakdown products and related chemicals.
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Subject: New PAN Pesticide Database------
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 10:12:17 -0400
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of
California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
Dear Mr. Helliker,
I thought you might like to check this out: New PAN Pesticide Database -
September 7, 2000.
To find out the vital statistics about a particular
pesticide, you might talk to a farmer about the pests it is used for; a chemist
about its breakdown products; a pesticide activist or government organization
about regulatory status; and a physician about toxicity. Or you could visit PAN
North America's new pesticide database at http://www.pesticideinfo.org.
The PAN Pesticide Database is the largest, most
comprehensive collection of pesticide data in the world, including information
about 5,100 pesticide active ingredients, pesticide breakdown products and
related chemicals. The system also provides information on over 100,000
formulated pesticide products registered by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) and California Department of Pesticide Regulation. For each chemical with
available data, the PAN Pesticide Database provides the following information:
* Basic chemical information including uses and chemical
classifications, related chemicals, and Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) registry
number.
* Toxicity characteristics, including acute toxicity,
cancer ratings from U.S. EPA, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC),
National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the State of California, as well as
other chronic toxicity information on reproductive and developmental toxicity
(California Proposition 65) and suspected endocrine disruption.
* Regulatory status, including U.S. and California product
registration. With additional funding, we hope to extend this to include
information on international pesticide product regulatory status.
* Aquatic ecotoxicity information, including acute toxicity
ratings for major taxa groups such as amphibians, fishes, zooplankton and
phytoplankton. This information was generated by evaluating more than 170,000
ecotoxicity studies collected by the U.S. EPA. In the near future, we also plan
to include data on terrestrial plants and animals.
To build the PAN Pesticide Database, PAN staff collected
information from literally hundreds of sources and then selected the most
comprehensive and accurate of these datasets to include in the database.
Integrating many datasets makes our database highly comprehensive, and allows us
to cross check sources for accuracy.
Throughout the Web site, information is completely
referenced and links to original data sources are provided. In addition to
standard reference information, we also note when the dataset was last updated.
For example, most cancer lists are updated only once per year, while new U.S.
EPA-registered pesticide products are added on a daily basis. Technical terms
and regulatory information are fully documented in easy-to-understand language
for the first time user, with links to more in-depth information for the
professional.
While the PAN Pesticide Database contains a large
collection of pesticide information, there are many sections that PAN plans to
expand further as time and resources permit. These include international
regulatory information and local pesticide use data where available. The human
health section could be expanded to include medical information (i.e., symptoms
of poisoning) and specific organ effects of pesticide exposure. A chemistry
section could be created to include breakdown pathways, chemical structures, and
physical properties. Lastly, PAN plans to present information on pesticides
commonly used on particular crops--important information for community groups
wondering what they might be exposed to if they live next to a strawberry field,
for example.
Finally, our end users are very important to us (that's
you!). Please let us know if you have particular data needs or know about some
data sources we might have missed. Additionally, if you have data you would be
willing to provide for incorporation into the PAN Pesticide Database, please let
us know by contacting stephanorme@panna.org or skegley@dnai.com.
PANUPS is a weekly email news service providing resource
guides and reporting on pesticide issues that don't always get coverage by the
mainstream media. It's produced by Pesticide Action Network North America, a
non-profit and non-governmental organization working to advance sustainable
alternatives to pesticides worldwide.
You can join our efforts! We gladly accept donations for
our work and all contributions are tax deductible in the United States. Visit
our extensive web site at http://www.panna.org to learn more about getting
involved.
Well Mr. Helliker, I would like to encourage you with
this thought: "The first person who has to believe in you is you."
Obviously it is has to be extremely hard for you to continue to pretend
to beLIEve "registered" POISONS are the only "legal" answer!
Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
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