Environmental assessment of pesticide leaching using measured data versus simulated data in Latin America

JAIRO GUERRERRO; ANNENIEKE FORENHORST; ALEXANDER ERAZO; JUAN CHIN; LILIANA MONZA; BRITT MAESTRONI; IAN FERRIS

San Juan de Puerto Rico

Congreso; 43rd IUPAC 2011 World Chemistry Congress; 2011

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the Colegio de Químicos de Puerto Rico

Several Latin American countries are currently participating in FAO/IAEA sponsored projects involving monitoring of indicators of good agricultural practice at a catchment scale with participants primarily from the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Region. The project is interested to evaluate if there is no significant difference between the leaching output of the PRZM model using local weather data versus calculated weather data for a regional area and if there is no significant difference in the leaching output of the PRZM model between measured Koc data and Koc values derived from the Footprint database for a selected pesticides in 8 Latin American countries and Canada. The finding from this multinational project will show the possibility to use weather simulated data and pesticide data base properties to assess environmental fate pollutants.