This section provides guidance on classification, risk reduction measures, management, use of pesticides and suicide prevention. Information on how governments can meet their obligations under the terms of the Rotterdam Convention is also provided.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- FAO / WHO - Managing pesticides in agriculture and public health. A compendium of FAO and WHO guidelines and other resources. Second edition [2021]
- WHO - Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard [2019]
- FAO / WHO : Guidelines on Highly Hazardous Pesticides [2016]
- WHO/FAO - Preventing suicide: a resource for pesticide registrars and regulators [2019]
- WHO - Safer access to pesticides for suicide prevention: Experiences from community interventions [2016]
- FAO : Guidelines on good labelling practice for pesticides [2015]
- FAO : Guidelines on compliance and enforcement of a pesticide regulatory programme [2006]
- FAO : Pesticide Registration Toolkit [2020]
- FAO / WHO : The International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management [2014]
- CIPAC / FAO / WHO : Quality control of pesticides products: Guidelines for national laboratories [2005]
- WHO - Guidelines for procuring public health pesticides [2012]
- FAO : Guidelines for the management of small quantities of unwanted and obsolete pesticides [1999]
- FAO : Environmental Management Tool Kit for Obsolete Pesticides (EMTK) [2021]
- FAO / WHO : Guidelines on management options for empty containers [2008]
- WHO - Prequalified Lists: Vector control products [accessed 2022]
- FAO / WHO : Technical guidelines for the implementation of the International Code of Conduct on Pesticide management [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Guidelines for predicting dietary intake of pesticide residues [1997]
- FAO / WHO : Guidelines on Developing a Reporting System for Health and Environmental Incidents Resulting from Exposure to Pesticides [2009]
- Rotterdam Convention - The Rotterdam Convention Secretariat Resource Kit [accessed 2020]
- Rotterdam Convention- E-learning tool on the operation of the Rotterdam Convention [accessed 2022]
- Rotterdam Convention - Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulations (SHPFs) Toolkit [accessed 2020]
- Rotterdam Convention - Web site on Chemicals [accessed 2022]
- FAO / WHO : Guidelines for quality control of pesticides [2011]
- IARC - Individual pesticides from groups IA and IB: Summaries & evaluations [1997]
- FAO / WHO : Guidelines on Pesticide Legislation [2020]
- UNEP/FAO/WHO - Synthesis Report on the Environmental and Health Impacts of Pesticides and Fertilizers and ways to minimize them [2022]