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 General
information
Information
on pesticide active ingredients can be found using the PAN Pesticide
Database Chemical search. Visit
the site.
This page briefly
describes the documentation available for this data set and provides
links to more detailed information.
What
is a Pesticide?
Provides
general information on what pesticides are and how pesticide active
ingredients differ from formulated pesticide products. Provides
additional information on inert ingredients and links to other resources.
Chemical
Identification
Describes and
defines the types of information commonly used to identify pesticides,
including names and synonyms, identifying numbers and codes, and
use types.
Chemical
Classification
Provides
information about the chemical types of common classes of pesticides,
and provides generic chemical structures for most classes of pesticides.
Parent
and Related Chemicals
Defines the
logic for combining chemicals into groups based on chemical similarity,
creating a "parent" chemical and a group of related chemicals.
Lists the types of chemical groups found in the database. Provides
guidance on using these groupings to determine toxicological similarity
of related chemicals to the parent chemical.
Last updated
September 20, 2003
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