H. Budzinski, M. Couderchet
Mar 22, 2018
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Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Abstract
This special issue of Environmental Science and Pollution Research highlights selected papers presented at the 46th congress of the French Group of Pesticide research (Groupe Français des Pesticides, GFP) that took place between the 15 and 17, May, 2016, in Bordeaux, France. GFP is a scientific society that was founded in 1977 by a group of scientists from several French academic institutions (Universities, INRA, CNRS...) to establish and maintain a broad consensus between research laboratories and promote any training or information on all scientific and technical aspects of pesticides (Chollet et al. 2014). Whether they are used as plant protection compounds or biocides, pesticides have disseminated into all environments and have yielded to a general pollution especially of the aquatic environment. Therefore, the objective of the 46th edition of the GFP congress was to gather information collected by the French scientific community and to have a critical discussion in agreement with the national BEcophyto 2^ program launched in 2015. During the 3 days of the congress, a total of 99 presentations (48 oral and 51 poster presentations) were grouped into five sections: & Diagnosis and environmental fate of pesticides: new analytical techniques, the use of chemical integrative samplers and other sampling techniques, results of pesticide survey in water, air, and soil as well as in aquatic fauna, sorption and biodisponibility, degradation... & Impact and risks: ecotoxicological approaches, endocrine disruptors, influence of pesticide cocktails, effects of pesticides on microorganism communities and on bees, transfer between environmental compartments and from the vineyard to the wine, monitoring of spray drift... & Human health: contamination of human population, assessment of health risk and precision agriculture, new insights into the regulation of themode of action of neonicotinoids... & Alternative methods and agroecology: reduction of doses through vectorization of pesticide molecules, microinjection of pesticides into trees, dimensioning of buffer strips, agroecology and alternatives in the production of Bordeaux wines... & Social and economic aspects of pesticide use: perception of pesticide contamination by urban populations, pesticides and psychology, sociocultural resistance to changes in pesticide use in vineyards...