International Pesticide Product Registration Requirements: The Road to Harmonization Book

	Preface
1	Overview	1
2	International Trade Agreements and Their Impact on Health and Environmental Standards and Quality Assurance of Data	5
3	International Harmonization via ISO	14
4	Laboratory Competence: ISO Guide 25 or GLP	22
5	The OECD GLP Principles and ISO/IEC Guide 25: Schisms and Bridges	31
6	The Impact of Good Laboratory Practice Accreditation Programs on Laboratory Operation	36
7	Third Party Laboratory Accreditation: A2LA - A Case Study	46
8	Laboratory Accreditation Under the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program for Laboratories and Field Sites Conduction GLP Studies in the United States: An Update	56
9	Good Laboratory Practice Regulations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Our Mission - Past, Present, and Future	71
10	Proposed Changes in FIFRA GLPS: Impact on the Agricultural Industry	78
11	Recent Revisions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Residue Chemistry	83
12	The Effects of the Harmonization of Regulatory Requirements on the Crop Protection Industry	94
13	Implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996	104
14	Impact of the Food Quality Protection Act on Industry: An Illustration Using Case Studies	110
15	The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996: An Industry Perspective	122
16	Good Laboratory Practices and Pesticide Regulation in Mexico	129
17	Pesticides Registration Process in Mexico	139
18	Environmental Assessment of Pesticides in Brazil	145
19	Brazilian and South American Pesticide Registration: The Industrial Perspective	150
20	Status of Pesticides Control in Cordoba, Argentina	169
21	International Multi-Country Field Studies: GLP Problems and Solutions	174
22	Field Trials in Latin America: Se Habla GLP?	181
23	The Canadian Pesticide Registration System in the Context of International Harmonization	190
24	Quality Assurance for Environmental Laboratories in Canada	200
25	Registration Procedures for Agrochemicals in the European Union	206
26	GLP in the European Union: Regulations, Implementation, and Experiences	216
27	Registration in France: A Changing Scene: GLP Certification - 2 Plays in One	223
28	GLP Considerations on the Road to Mutual Acceptability: A Swiss Perspective	232
29	Ecotoxicology and Good Laboratory Practice (GLP): European Requirements and Practices	241
30	Registration of Plant Protection Products: Comparison of the U.S. and EU Models	253
31	Good Laboratory Practices and Pesticide Regulation in Japan	266
32	GLP National Status and Facilities in India for Pesticide Product Registration	278
33	Validation of Complete GC and HPLC Systems in Analytical Chemistry: Is Validation of Individual System Components Really Necessay?	284
34	Validation, Verification: Possibility, Probability	294