Technical guidelines - The aim of this document is to provide a general guidance for the establishment or strengthening of national pesticide quality control activities, irrespective of the use of the product, whether public health or agricultural. This document focuses on laboratories involved in the post-registration analysis of...

Technical guidelines - Provide guidance on pest and pesticide management policy development in support of pesticide risk reduction and sustainable agricultural production.

Technical guidelines - An important objective of these guidelines is to assist FAO and other agencies to ensure that sprayers purchased are safe to users and to the environment as well as being efficient and durable in operation. Even the cheapest sprayer models should meet minimum standards of...

Technical guidelines - The guidelines are aimed at decision-makers, managers, field supervisors and spray operatives. They cover the application of pesticides using any ground based field crop sprayers, including operator carried and tree and bush crop sprayers.

Technical guidelines - The guidelines in this document are addressing government officials in plant protection, environmental and other concerned authorities. They consider the training, testing and certification of those who actually operate pesticide application equipment. Even the most well-designed and maintained applicators can do immeasurable damage in the...