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PESTICIDE QUALITY TESTING LABORATORY

Scope of research

  • Plant protection product quality monitoring as part of official checks.
  • Provision of evaluations, reports and remarks for pesticide registration documents.
  • Assessment of pesticide authenticity and expert quality reports on suspected counterfeits.
  • Expired pesticide testing for shelf-life extension.
  • Tests for active substances and contaminants in plant protection products (commercial products).
  • Tests of physical and chemical properties of plant protection products.
  • Tests of the quality of technical grade materials for making pesticide formulations.
  • Good-Laboratory-Practice-conforming pesticide registration testing for the composition and physical and chemical properties of technical materials and formulations.
  • Physical and chemical compatibility tests of ingredients for the combined use of agrochemicals.

Main achievements

  • Establishment of an independent analytical laboratory specializing in the evaluation of plant protection products and of problems associated with their production, use, storage and possible environmental contamination.
  • Equipping the laboratory with advanced research and measurement equipment.
  • Development of a number of analysis methods for pesticide and technical concentrate formulations.
  • Development of a quality control system for plant protection products and carrying out official annual checks together with the Main Plant Health and Seed Inspectorate.
  • Numerous expert opinions on the quality of plant protection products, attesting expired products, and testing for counterfeit pesticides.
  • Work conducted under the Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) system.

 

More information available on the Branch website: www.ior.gliwice.pl

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Contact details

Contact details

Poland, 60-318 POZNAŃ, ul. Władysława Węgorka 20

phone no: +48 61 864 9000, fax: +48 61 867 63 01

e-mail: sekretariat@iorpib.poznan.pl

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