The FAO Code of Conduct about

The revised FAO Code of Conduct includes the "life-cycle" concept to address all major aspects of pesticides management. This approach, sometimes known as ‘cradle-to-grave’ calls for strategies to avoid harm throughout development to disposal. The approach addresses all areas of pesticide management from pesticide production via formulation and packaging of pesticide products, to pesticide application and the disposal of empty pesticide containers, to old pesticide stocks as well as the occurrence of pesticides residues even in areas of the world where they have never been applied.
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The "life-cycle" concept in the FAO Code of Conduct

1.7

The standards of conduct set forth in this Code:

1.7.5

adopt the ‘life-cycle’ concept to address all major aspects related to the development, regulation, production, management, packaging, labelling, distribution, handling, application, use and control, including post registration activities and disposal of all types of pesticides, including used pesticide containers;

5.1

Governments should:

5.1.10

implement a programme to monitor pesticide residues in food and the environment.

5.3

Government and industry should cooperate in further reducing risks by:

5.3.4

protecting biodiversity and minimizing adverse effects of pesticides on the environment (water, soil and air) and on non-target organisms.

6.1

Governments should:

6.1.7

improve regulations in relation to collecting and recording data on import, export, manufacture, formulation, quality and quantity of pesticides;

6.1.8

collect and record data on the import, export, manufacture, formulation, quality, quantity and use of pesticides in order to assess the extent of any possible effects on human health or the environment, and to follow trends in pesticide use for economic and other purposes;