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For Chemists

Accreditation - NEW
Signatories to the ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement

Chemicals

Solvent Boiling Point Chart
Solvent Stability

Crop Groupings

EPA Food and Feed Commodity Vocabulary
IR-4 Project Index of Crops/Groups

Food Safety

Codex Alimentarius - FAO/WHO Food Standards
Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) - European Union

Instrumentation

Gas Chromatography 101 (Sheffield Hallam University)
AnalChem GC: Theory, Detectors, Trouble shooting
Typical GC System
Restek Online Calculators for Chromatographic Optimization
Restek Chromatogram Archive
Agilent Searchable Chromatogram Library
Liquid Chromatography (LC) textbook by Y.V. Kazakevich and H.M. McNair

Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs)

Canada PMRA - MRLs
Codex Alimentarius - Pesticide Residues in Food, MRLs
Environmental Protection Agency (currently being reviewed and updated)
EUROPA- European Commission (MRLs sorted by pesticide, crop group, commodity)
Pesticide EU MRLs, Current EU Maximum Residue Legislation- Foreign Agricultural Service/U.S. Mission to EU

Networking for Chemists in Africa - NEW

International Foundation for Scientists (IFS)
Southern and East Africa Network of Analytical Chemists (SEANAC)

Pesticides

Databases

Compendium of Pesticide Common Names
Compendium of Pesticide Common Names - Index
Extoxnet - Pesticide Information Profiles (PIPs)
Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database
Organization for Economic Development (OECD)

Degradation Pathways

University of Minnesota Biocatalysis and Biodegradation Database:
2,4-D - Atrazine - Glyphosate - Iprodione - Parathion - Pentachlorphenol - Phthalate - Propachlor -
S-Triazine

Persistent Organic Pollutants

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) - Bamako, Mali meeting, December 1997

Registry Numbers

Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) Numbers - from the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names
EPA Substance Registry System (SRS)

Toxicology

IPSC INCHEM Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) Toxicological Evaluations

Proficiency Testing - NEW

FAPAS (Food Analysis Performance Assessment Scheme) is the largest and most comprehensive analytical chemistry proficiency testing scheme in the food sector.