#109 Specification of purity of the active substance
OECD data point number
IIA 1.9 (Chemical pesticides – active ingredient)
IIP 1.9.3 (pheromones and other semiochemicals – active ingredient)
Circumstances in which the data are required
The information is always required.
Test substance
Information to be provided for: technical grade active ingredient (TGAI)
Typical information to be provided by the applicant
IIA 1.9.1: Minimum and/or nominal content (g/kg) of pure active ingredients (excluding inactive isomers), whether or not relevant to a pilot plant.
IIA 1.9.1.1: Minimum content (g/kg) of pure active ingredients (excluding inactive isomers), whether or not relevant to a pilot plant
IIA 1.9.1.1: Nominal content (g/kg) of pure active ingredients (excluding inactive isomers), whether or not relevant to a pilot plant
IIA 1.9.2: Certified limits of the active ingredients.
IIA 1.9.3 / IIP 1.9.3 Control product specification form or confidential statement of formula.
Where the information provided relates to a pilot plant production system, the information required must again be provided once industrial scale production methods and procedures have stabilized, if production changes result in a changed specification of purity.
Guidelines
Chemical pesticides
- US EPA Product Properties Test Guidelines. OPPTS 830.1550. Product Identity and Composition
- US EPA Product Properties Test Guidelines. OPPTS 830.1750. Certified limits
BioChemical pesticides
- US EPA Biochemicals Test Guidelines. OPPTS 880.1100. Product Identity and Composition