Hygienic substantiation of selection criteria for fungicides monitoring in water

Abstract

Improvement of the pesticides monitoring system in the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine will ensure the preservation of the environment, protection of public health and the rational use of natural resources. The aim of the research is hygienic substantiation of selection criteria for fungicides monitoring in water. The following methods were used: laboratory and full-scale in-field hygienic experiments, physical-chemical (chromatographic), organoleptic, physical, mathematical modelling, mapping and statistical analysis. Based on the long-term research of fungicides behavior in the soil-climatic conditions, we have proposed selection criteria for the fungicides monitoring in water: solubility in water, Koc, ADI, the hazard class of fungicides toxicity, DT95 in water, GUS, the magnitude of the risk of pesticides intake with water. It was proposed to monitor fungicides if they meet at least three of listed criteria. Implementation of scientifically substantiated criteria for the selection of fungicides for monitoring into the work of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the State Service of Ukraine for Labor, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine will allow to preserve the health of agricultural workers and the population on the whole and reduce the anthropogenic burden on the environment objects