International Meeting

Project framework:

Knowledge for Pesticides Control (KNOWPEC)

European Union

Date:February 19-23, 2018.

Site:Av. Chorroarín 280, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Monday19th, February 2018

Time / Subject / EXPOSITOR
8:30 to 9:00 / Registration
9:00 to 9:30 / Opening ceremony
9:30 to 10:00 / KNOWPEC: Objectives and future perspectives / Carmen Sans
(Spain)
10:00 to 10:30 / Coffee break
10:30 to 11:30 / Overview of pesticide use in Argentina / Alicia Fernández Cirelli
(Argentina)
11:30 to 12:30 / Non destructive methods for pesticide monitoring / Analia Iriel
(Argentina)
12:30 to 13:00 / Surfactants as adjuvants in pesticide formulations. / Romina Pessagno (Argentina)
13:00 to 14:00 / Lunch
14:00 to 15:00 / Study of chlorpyrifos and endosulfan in the southeast of Buenos Aires, Argentina / Cecile du Mortier
(Argentina)
15:00 to 16:00 / National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) / Ramiro Cid
(Argentina)
16:00 to 16:30 / Photodegradation of organophosphorus pesticide dichlorvos in water. / Nahuel Bustos (Argentina)
16:30 to 17:00 / Water pollution assessment of pesticide residues in Buenos Aires / Dante Rojas (Argentina)

Tuesday 20th, February 2018

TIME / Subject / EXPOSITOR
9:30 to10:30 / National Action Plans in Europe for the Sustainable Use ofPesticides, Prospects and Challenges / Zisis Vryzas
(Greece)
10:30 to11:00 / Coffee break
11:00to12:00 / Registration of phytosanitary products in Argentina / Daniel Mazzarella
(Argentina)
12:00 to 13:00 / Pesticides in transgenic cultures in Buenos Aires and human exposure / Edda Villamil
(Argentina)
13:00 to 14:00 / Lunch
14:00 to 15:30 / Fate of anthropic pollutants to Suquía River basin.Transferto aquatic biota, including edible fish. / Daniel Wunderlin
(Argentina)
15:30 to 16:30 / National Program of Plant Protection (INTA) / Jorge E. Frana
(Argentina)
16:30 to 17:30 / Pesticide Risk Assessment approaches in Europe / Carmel Ramwell
(United Kingdom)

Wednesday 21th, February 2018

TIME / SUBJECT / EXPOSITOR
9:00 to10:30 / Pesticide Residues in Precipitation, Surface and Groundwater Bodies of Greece / Zisis Vryzas
(Greece)
10:30 to 11:00 / Coffee break
11:00to 11:30 / Law No. 27279 Integral management of empty containers of phytosanitary / Candela Nassi
(Argentina)
11:30 to 12:00 / Tools and policies for dealing with pesticide-contaminated sites / Leonardo Pfluger
(Argentina)
12:00 to 13:00 / Risk Management: An English perspective / Carmel Ramwell
(United Kingdom)
13:00 to 14:00 / Lunch
14:00 to 15:30 / On the method development for pesticide residue analysis in complex matrices from different origins / Horacio Heinzen
(Uruguay)
15:30 to 16:30 / Environmental and Human Cumulative Risk Assessment of Pesticides Using Local Monitoring / Laia Herrero Nogareda
(Denmark)
16:30 to 17:30 / Evaluation of pesticide contamination in agricultural areas of Bolivia and treatment alternatives for the removal / Maria Mercedes Alvarez Caero (Bolivia)

Thursday22th, February 2018

TIME / SUBJECT / EXPOSITOR
9:30 to10:30 / Ozone application on the removal of pesticides and emerging contaminants / Carmen Sans
(Spain)
10:30to 11:00 / Coffee break
11:00 to 12:30 / Advance Oxidation Processes: Applications to degradation of water pollutants / Orlando Alfano
and
Cristina Zalazar
(Argentina)
12:30 to 13:00 / Glyphosate and AMPA degradation in biobeds using alfalfa straw, wheat stubble and river waste. / Cristina Zalazar (Argentina)
13:00to14:00 / Lunch
14:00 to 15:00 / Advanced oxidation processes for environmental applications / Carmen Sans
(Spain)
15:00 to 16:00 / National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) / Leila Devia
(Argentina)
16:00 to 17:00 / General aspects developed by the CICA-UCR as part of the KNOWPEC Project. / Greivin Pérez
(Costa Rica)

Friday23th, February 2017

TIME / SUBJECT / EXPOSITOR
9:00 to 10:30 / Twenty five years of Glyphosate in the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences (FCEN-UBA) / Mary dos Santos Afonso
(Argentina)
10:30 to 12:00 / Use of pesticides in Argentina: Environmental fate of glyphosate / José Luis Costa (Argentina)
12:00 to 13:30 / Levels of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Emerging Contaminants in Latin American Atmosphere / Karina Miglioranza (Argentina)