Chemical Regulation

Regulations and restrictions on the use of chemicals to tackle plant and animal pests and diseases are becoming increasingly stringent, which means the range of chemical options available for tackling these threats is constantly being eroded. It’s essential to ensure that any chemicals used in the environment do not pose a threat to plants, wildlife and ecosystems, while ensuring they are effective against target pests and diseases.

Fera works to the latest OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals, which are a collection of the most relevant internationally agreed testing methods used by government, industry and independent laboratories to identify and characterise potential hazards of chemicals. We use innovative tools and techniques in our regulatory safety testing, providing valuable support to companies in their chemical evaluation and registration efforts.

Fera's chemical regulatory work

Fera helps commercial companies to accurately assess the toxic impacts of plant-protection products and veterinary medicines on a range of ecosystems and species.

Bee Ecotoxicology

Terrestrial Non-target Arthropod Studies

Lab Aquatic Ecotoxicology

High Tier Risk Assessments

Soil Organisms

Terrestrial Non-target Plants

Our Ecotoxicology Studies

Fera provides efficacy testing on any scale to support the registration and development of new plant-protection products.

Our Efficacy Studies

Fera offers a wide range of analytical services using sophisticated analytical instrumentation. We have the expertise, personnel and equipment to provide clients with assistance in analytical method development in support of environmental toxicology studies, biotechnology, manufacturing support, compliant sample analysis, formulated product analysis, polymer analysis, analytical method validation to GLP requirements and surfactant analysis.

Analytical Chemistry

Our Analytical Chemistry Services

Bees and other pollinating insects perform essential services in any ecosystem. As well as providing a host of products such as honey, wax, propolis, royal jelly and venom, bees are critical pollinators.

Beekeepers

Chemical Producers

Food, Retailers & Manufacturers

General Public

Growers & Argonomists

Government, Research & Universities

Our regulations-compliant environmental fate studies provide essential data on the fate and behaviour of pesticides and other chemicals in the environment.

Adsorption Mobility

Degradation

Metabolism & Livestock Residue Studies Our Fate & Metabolism Capabilities

Our Chemical Regulation team have helped customers develop and defend safe and effective new plant protection products that have made a real difference to people’s lives around the world. We offer a comprehensive range of high quality consulting services to the crop protection industry developing and registering both chemical and biological based crop protection solutions for the global marketplace.

Regulatory Risk Assessment

In Silico Predictive Toxicology

Fera has the scientific expertise, resources and data access required to support long-term monitoring and risk assessment for your regulated agri-chemical products.

Pesticide Usage Survey

Wildlife Incident Unit

Post-market Stewardship Expertise

We have a number of ebooks available across a range of disciplines that are available for download;

Mesocosm ebook

Environmental Fate ebook

Bee Studies ebook

Efficacy ebook

PUS (Pesticide Usage Survey) ebook