Describes the pesticide hazard classification for pesticides used by the organization, or disaggregates another metric in terms of pesticide hazard classification. Select all that apply:
This metric is intended to capture the hazard classification of pesticides used by the organization on land directly or indirectly managed.
For further guidance on hazard classification, see the World Health Organization’s “The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and Guidelines to Classification 2019” (https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332193/9789240005662-eng.pdf).
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
New metric. Pesticide Hazard Classification Type (OI7394) was developed via the IRIS+ Sustainable Agriculture Expert Subgroup.
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