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                    U.S. Food and Drug Administration
                           PESTDATA File
                      Update Date: June 2005
 
              CHANGES TO DATA SINCE PREVIOUS (November 2001) VERSION:
none
 
              CHANGES TO STRUCTURE SINCE PREVIOUS VERSION:
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 PESTDATA.txt contains information organized as in Appendix I to FDAÕs
 Pesticide Analytical Manual Vol. I (PAM I). It is a text file,
 specially formatted for import by database or spreadsheet software; the
 file contains a tab between fields and a carriage return plus
 line feed between records. It can be opened with word processing
 software, but it is not meant to be read that way. For example, a
typical line from PESTDATA.txt reads:
 
     parathion[tab]C10H14NO5PS[tab]0.98[tab]NI(WB)4/NP2[tab]
     1.91[tab]FP2/NI6[tab]1.07[tab]FP2/NI4[tab]2.5[tab]FP7[tab]C[tab]
     C [tab]C[tab]15[tab]2
 
 Instead of trying to "read" this, use software designed to create a
 database. Use one of the common database or spreadsheet programs, and
 "open" or "import" PESTDATA.txt to create a database.
 
 The file contains NNN+1 records. Each record contains fields of
 information in the following order and each field has, at a maximum,
 the number of characters shown. Entries in the first record, which
 contains field names, may be longer.
 
 Information in Field                                  maximum length
 
 Name                                                             80
 Molecular Formula                                                15
 Relative retention time (Rrt), OV-101 column                      5
 Detector responses, when used with OV-101 column                 40
 Rrt, OV-225 column                                                5
 Detector responses, when used with OV-225 column                 13
 Rrt, OV-17 column                                                 5
 Detector responses, when used with OV-17 column                  44
 Rrt, DEGS column                                                  5
 Detector responses, when used with DEGS column                   19
 Recovery through PAM I 302, no cleanup                            2
 Recovery through PAM I 303                                        3
 Recovery through PAM I 304                                        3
 Eluate(s) of ethyl ether/pet. ether (PAM I 303 C1, 304 C1 & C3)   7
 Eluate(s) of methylene chloride (PAM I 303 C2, 304 C2 & C4)       5
 
 
For further information, contact Carolyn Makovi, CMakovi@fda.hhs.gov,
or Mark Wirtz, MWirtz@fda.hhs.gov, FDA Division of Pesticides and
Industrial Chemicals, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740.