Pesticide Substitution: Combining Food Safety with Environmental Quality

Peter Fantke

Pesticide Substitution: Combining Food Safety with Environmental Quality

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Various pesticides are authorized for use on agricultural food crops. Despite regulatory risk assessments aiming at ensuring consumer and environmental safety, pesticides contribute to human and environmental impacts. Guidance is needed to optimize pesticide use practice and minimize human and environmental exposure. Comparative pesticide substitution scenarios are presented to address this need. In a case study on wheat, different pesticides have been compared with respect to their substitution potential with focus on human health. Results demonstrate that health impacts can be reduced up to 99% by defining adequate substitution scenarios. Comprehensive scenarios need to also consider worker and environmental burden, and information on crop rotation, pest pressure, environmental conditions, application costs and efficacy. Such scenarios help to increase food safety and more sustainable use of pesticides.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings. International conference on Life Cycle Assessment as reference methodology for assessing supply chains and supporting global sustainability challenges : LCA for "Feeding the planet and energy for life"
Editors	Simona Scalbi, Arianna Dominici Loprieno, Paola Sposato
Publisher	ENEA
Publication date	2015
Pages	291-293
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	International conference on Life Cycle Assessment as reference methodology for assessing supply chains and supporting global sustainability challenges: LCA for "Feeding The Planet and Energy For Life" - Stresa and Milano, Italy Duration: 6 Oct 2015 → 8 Oct 2015

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Conference	International conference on Life Cycle Assessment as reference methodology for assessing supply chains and supporting global sustainability challenges
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Stresa and Milano
Period	06/10/2015 → 08/10/2015

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Fantke, P. (2015). Pesticide Substitution: Combining Food Safety with Environmental Quality. In S. Scalbi, A. D. Loprieno, & P. Sposato (Eds.), Proceedings. International conference on Life Cycle Assessment as reference methodology for assessing supply chains and supporting global sustainability challenges: LCA for "Feeding the planet and energy for life" (pp. 291-293). ENEA.

Fantke, Peter. / Pesticide Substitution: Combining Food Safety with Environmental Quality. Proceedings. International conference on Life Cycle Assessment as reference methodology for assessing supply chains and supporting global sustainability challenges: LCA for "Feeding the planet and energy for life". editor / Simona Scalbi ; Arianna Dominici Loprieno ; Paola Sposato. ENEA, 2015. pp. 291-293

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Fantke, P 2015, Pesticide Substitution: Combining Food Safety with Environmental Quality. in S Scalbi, AD Loprieno & P Sposato (eds), Proceedings. International conference on Life Cycle Assessment as reference methodology for assessing supply chains and supporting global sustainability challenges: LCA for "Feeding the planet and energy for life". ENEA, pp. 291-293, International conference on Life Cycle Assessment as reference methodology for assessing supply chains and supporting global sustainability challenges, Stresa and Milano, Italy, 06/10/2015.

Pesticide Substitution: Combining Food Safety with Environmental Quality. / Fantke, Peter.
Proceedings. International conference on Life Cycle Assessment as reference methodology for assessing supply chains and supporting global sustainability challenges: LCA for "Feeding the planet and energy for life". ed. / Simona Scalbi; Arianna Dominici Loprieno; Paola Sposato. ENEA, 2015. p. 291-293.

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