Today, the 19th meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-19) continued its work, resuming at 9:30am, for the third day.
During the plenary session, designated chairs from the previous day’s contact groups reported on the progress of their work. Thereafter, the meeting continued and adopted decisions on:
- Draft decision guidance document (DGD) for methyl bromide
- Draft DGD for paraquat
- Workplan for the development of draft decision guidance documents
- Rationale for mercury
- Rationale for diarsenic pentaoxide
- Rationale for bromacil
The Committee continued working in contact groups throughout the morning. Participants later participated in a side event organized on the margins of CRC-19, with the theme: “Protecting People, Plants and Planet: FAO's examples of sustainable plant protection and alternatives to hazardous pesticides”, which was opened by the FAO’s Deputy-Director General, Ms. Beth Bechdol.
The Committee then continued working in contact groups for the rest of day to discuss notifications on chlorpyrifos and the four chemicals for which consideration had been deferred from CRC18 (carbaryl, chlorfenvinphos, methidathion and thiodicarb).