Links
OECD Pesticide Programme, Paris, France
Interuniversity Consortium "CHEMISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT" (INCA), University of Venice, Italy
Novartis
Foundation for Sustainable Development, Basel, Switzerland
AVCARE,
National Association for Crop Production and Animal Health,
Canberra, Australia
IFCS, Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety
PHARE Project EuropeAid/115815/D/SV/RO, Romania
RECETOX, Research Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Brno, Czech Republic
Removing a hazard in Moldova, video (WMV 13.430Kb) 05 Jun 2007
Clean-up chemicals Moldova, NATO Project Top. Down. EAP. Science for Peace Programme 981186.
Science centers
Possibilities for the Exchange of technical information
IHPA supports a number of so-called Science Centres, which are knowledgeable organisations willing to share technical information and experiences for the benefit of international co-operation.
Each Centre lists a maximum of 3 issues of specialisation. Please feel free to make contact concerning the stated issues.
The following Centres are active at the moment:
IHOBE; Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain:
- Pesticides Soil Contamination
Ms. Ana Alzola
- HCH Chemical Treatment
Ms. Ana Mezo
- Treatment of Leachate contaminated with Pesticides and
Heavy Metals
Ms. Marian Barquin
Jordforsk, Norway:
- Soil and water surveys and monitoring at point, local
or international scale.
Ms. Gro Ludvigsen, gro-hege.ludvigsen@jordforsk.no - Contaminated soil surveys and in-situ containment and
remediation
Mr. Hans Blom, hans.blom@jordforsk.no - Water treatment systems
Mr. Ketil Haarstad, ketil.haarstad@jordforsk.no
National Centre of Environment and Sustainable Development (NCESD), Bulgaria:
- Strategy, management and protective actions in relation
to pesticide contamination
- Soil and water investigations and monitoring
- Biological soil treatment
Please contact Valentina Vassileva, ncesd@nfp-bg.eionet.eu.int
Pesticides Action Network UK, United Kingdom:
- Health and environmental effects of pesticides
- Alternative pest management options in agricultural and
public health
- Obsolete pesticide prevention and disposal: planning, guidance, information and monitoring of operations.
Please contact Mark Davis, markdavis@pan-uk.org
and David Buffin, davidbuffin@pan-uk.org
Homepage: www.pan-uk.org
Plant Protection Institute, Poland:
- Quality control of plant protection products
- Analysis of the residues in plants, soil and water
- Strategy, management and protective actions in relation to pesticide waste.
Please contact Stanislaw Stobiecki, stocki@ior.gliwice.pl
University of Teheran, Iran:
- Pesticides residues
- Aquatic toxicology
- Soil pollution
Please contact Ahmad Mahdavi, AHMADVI@CHAMRAN.UT.AC.IR
Agricultural Research Corporation, Khartoum, Sudan:
- Evaluation pesticides pest control on vegetable and field
crops
- Pesticides residues in crops and soil
- Evaluation of natural products
Please contact Miss Ensaf Shiekh Idris, ensaf@hotmail.com
Research Center of Rural Environmental Protection,
Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences,
State Environmental Protection, China:
- Pesticides toxicity
- Pesticides ecology
- Environmental protection
Please contact Mr. Xiliu Jiang, jiangxl@public1.ppt.js.cn
Russian Institute of Nature Protection
Ecological Centre for Pesticide Research
- Main items:
- Soil and water pollution
- Obsolete pesticides problems
- Development of pesticide registration procedure
If you want your organisation to be a part of the IHPA Science Centres, please contact the Secretariat.