Publications & Downloads

The Documents for the 3rd Virtual Workshop on the revised EFSA Birds and Mammals Guidance Document on 28 April 2026

Background, Regulatory hurdles, Ambiguities, Lines of evidence, Modelling - How best to approach the new fTWA assessment.

Poster_FocalSpecies_RiceSoybean_Brazil

Gomes-de-Sa_et_al_2025_MammalRewiew

Cione et al 2024c_SoilOrg_BM

Cione et al 2024b_Aquatics

Cione et al 2024a_Reg Amendments

2026-03-27_Casallanovi et al_Evaluating

2026-03-27_Casallanovi et al_Evaluating Brazils Tiered Approach for Estimating Pesticide Exposure to Soil Dwelling organisms

SETAC Europe 36th Annual Meeting - Our Contributions 2026

Our posters and oral presentations

SETAC Europe 2025 - 17 Contributions RIFCON

Bird and mammal risk assessment, ecological modelling, field studies, phytotoxicity, bees… 17 contributions of RIFCON scientists!

Wittwer at al. (2024) After dark, all CATs are leopards

Recently, the ‘Closure Principle Computational Approach Test’ (CPCAT) was developed as a method that should overcome the shortcomings of NOEC/LOEC application in ecotoxicological pesticide risk assessments. CPCAT is supposed to handle abundance data characterized by low abundances, Poisson distributed, and overdispersion without restrictions.

Singer at al. (2023) BEEHAVE – Analysing the Significance of Increased Brood Termination Rate on the Colony Strength in Honey Bees

The brood termination rate (BTR) investigated in higher-tier studies according to OECD GD 75 for pesticide risk assessment is the determinant of honey bee (Apis mellifera) mortality during pre-imaginal development and thus influences colony strength.

Jakoby at al. (2023) Spatially explicit population models support impact assessment of precision application – a common vole example

Precision farming has the potential to reduce the impact of pesticides on the environment. Particularly, a more precise use of pesticides can result not only in a reduced pesticide load, but also in a spatially heterogeneous application pattern on the field scale. Accordingly, the effect of the pesticide on populations of non-target species might change.