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Harmonized Test Guidelines
The Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) has developed these guidelines through a process of harmonization that blended the testing guidance and requirements that existed in the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) and appeared in title 40, chapter I, subchapter R of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) which appeared in publications of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), and the guidelines published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The purpose for harmonizing these guidelines into a single set of OPPTS guidelines is to minimize variations among the testing procedures that must be performed to meet the data requirements of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (15 U.S.C. 2601) and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.).
Series: The OPPTS harmonized guidelines are organized in the following 10 series:
- 810 - Product Performance Test Guidelines
- 830 - Product Properties Test Guidelines
- 835 - Fate, Transport and Transformation Test Guidelines
- 840 - Spray Drift Test Guidelines
- 850 - Ecological Effects Test Guidelines
- 860 - Residue Chemistry Test Guidelines
- 870 - Health Effects Test Guidelines
- 875 - Occupational and Residential Exposure Test Guidelines
- 880 - Biochemicals Test Guidelines
- 885 - Microbial Pesticide Test Guidelines
For copies: These guidelines are available electronically in PDF (portable document format) on EPA's web site at http://www.epa.gov/opptsfrs/home/guidelin.htm/, in hard copy at the OPP Docket in Rm. S-4400, One Potomac Yard (South Building), 2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA, or by contacting the Docket at (703) 305-5805.
In writing: Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Docket (7502P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.
