Higher-tier environmental fate studies

With our in-house field-fate team, we can design, deliver and interpret higher-tier studies to good-laboratory-practice (GLP) standards that address specific regulatory concerns, including

• field leaching and dissipation studies
• drainflow and run-off evaluations
• testing infield and edge-of-field mitigation options
• hard surface and farmyard losses
• shallow and deep groundwater monitoring
• volatilisation and redeposition studies
• replicated plot studies using hydrologically isolated plot facilities
• spray drift evaluation and testing of drift reduction technologies
• crop interception and wash-off studies
• field fate investigations
• multi-site regulatory studies.

Examples of past higher-tier environmental fate studies delivered by CEA

• Investigation of transport of soil sterilant through soil and from treated soil. Series of laboratory and field studies (across EU) designed, placed and monitored.
• Investigation of run-off of a range of applied pesticides, in the field, including the design of bespoke systems for measuring the effect of different cultivation practices on loss via run-off.
• Field drainage studies in the UK to calibrate loss from fields under realistic situations and real soils.