21st International Fresenius AGRO Conference "Behaviour of Pesticides in Air, Soil and Water"

Mainz,Germany    Jun. 25, 2019-Jun. 26, 2019

Mainz,Germany

Jun. 25, 2019-Jun. 26, 2019

Venue:

Atrium Hotel Mainz

Address:

Flugplatzstr. 44 55126 Mainz

Organizer:

Die Akademie Fresenius GmbH

Contact:

Sabine Mummenbrauer

Tel:

+49 231 75896-82

Email:

smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de

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Highlights
Regulatory issues
- Regulation (EC) 1107/2009 update from the European Commission
- Work on EFSA FOCUS Repair group
- Update on harmonisation work in the zones
- Mid term evaluation of the Dutch crop protection policy
 
Environmental fate 
- Update on the guidance on aged sorption of pesticides in soil
- Recent environmental fate activities at the Pest Management Regulatory Agency at Health Canada
- Simulating the fungicide chlorothalonil in East Tiaoxi River using the RICEWQ-EXAMS model

Exposure, risk assessment and risk mitigation
- Coupling pesticide fate and effect models: Challenges for the fate modelling community
- Update on groundwater monitoring
- Update on aquatic exposure assessment of pesticides in Latin America
- Update on SETAC DRAW
- Update from SETAC EMAG-Pest

Who do you meet?
Groups that should take part:
Managing directors, boards of directors, members of supervisory boards, managers and scientists in the field of:
- Environmental behaviour
- Field inspection
- Research & development
- Legal & regulatory affairs
- Registration
- Ecotoxicology
- Exposure & risk assessment
- Monitoring & computer modelling

Sectors that should take part:
- Agrochemical industry
- Research institutes from the area of agriculture, soil, hydrology and air
- Authorities (agricultural inspection offices, registration and control authorities)
- Water supply enterprises
- Professional associations

Participation Fee: € 1,895.00 plus VAT.
The registration fee includes the following benefits:
- conference participation
- conference documentation
- lunch
- coffee breaks and conference beverages
- the evening event on 25 June 2019

Representatives of an authority or a public university are therefore eligible for a reduced fee of € 795.00 plus VAT per person (please provide evidence). The reduced fee cannot be combined with other rebates.
 
Group reductions
For joint bookings received from one company the organizer grants a 15 % discount from the third participant onwards (it doesn’t apply for representatives of an authority or a public university).
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