Sustainable use of pesticides and their residues monitoring

Enhancing practical skills of horticulture specialists to better address the demands of the European Green Deal
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Nutritional quality of horticultural products

`Sustainable use of pesticides and their residues monitoring` handbook is a teaching and training material (TTM) intended for students use, particularly master students. Due to the need to integrate the handbook in a web learning platform, and to further use this materials for online courses, the handbook content was divided in modules.

Consequently, the `Sustainable use of pesticides and their residues monitoring` handbook is structured in five theoretical modules, and one module for the practical works.

The modules are:

O3.A1. EU directives on sustainable use of pesticides – 60 pages

O3.A2. Hazard classification related to pesticides – 50 pages

O3.A3. Methods to minimize chemical pesticide dosages – 50 pages

O3.A4. Problematic issues of concern – 44 pages

O3.A5. Residue analysis and monitoring – 74 pages

O3.A6. Laboratory methods for pesticides residuesanalysis. Practical Training Module – 61 pages

The handbook is an interactive multimedia tool, with accessible hyperlinks, adapted to be readable on the phone/tablet/laptop, and not for a printed version.