The Pesticide Properties Database

Kathy Lewis and Andy Green, ‘The Pesticide Properties DataBase’, Chemistry International, Vol. 33 (3), May-June 2011, published by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). Content in the UH Research Archive is made available for personal research, educational, and non-commercial purposes only. Unless otherwise stated, all content is protected by copyright, and in the absence of an open license, permissions for further re-use should be sought from the publisher, the author, or other copyright holder.Modeling and decision support systems for pesticide risk assessments are invariably data hungry, and there has been a long and widely recognized need for a single authoritative and comprehensive database of pesticide physicochemical and toxicological properties that is available both as an online resource and in a portable electronic format suitable for embedding in or interrogating from other software applications. The Pesticide Properties DataBase (PPDB) has been developed to address this need. The online system is free of charge and currently contains records for about 1 800 active substances and their metabolites. It holds data required for modeling the fate and ecotoxicological risks of pesticides in both terrestrial and aquatic systems, as well as information on chemical identifiers and data relating to regulatory issues and commercial products.Final Published versio