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Design and Interpretation of Herbicide Anaerobic Aquatic Metabolism Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Susan Erhardt Zabik  and
Jeff D. Wolt
Susan Erhardt Zabik
Affiliation:
DowElanco, Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, 9330 Zionsville Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46268-1053
Jeff D. Wolt
Affiliation:
DowElanco, Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, 9330 Zionsville Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46268-1053
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Abstract

Herbicides may be exposed to a broad range of anaerobic conditions in the environment. This range can extend from weakly reducing conditions within typically aerobic compartments to stable, strongly reducing conditions in sites well removed from oxidative conditions. Currently, Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) regulatory guidelines specify the design criteria for guideline studies that frequently result in highly stable, strongly reducing test systems. These test systems do not simulate environments where herbicides are likely to occur. Design criteria for anaerobic aquatic test systems can influence the nature of the results of anaerobic aquatic metabolism studies as well as the relevance of these results to natural environmental processes. Design criteria which should be considered are the effects of sediment to water ratio, establishment of an anaerobic system, monitoring the reducing potential (Eh) of the system and the system Eh-pH relationship. These criteria influence how results are interpreted and the extrapolation of data to field environments where herbicides are likely to occur.

Keywords

Anaerobic degradationenvironmental fateFIFRA regulatory guideline requirementsherbicides
Type
Symposium
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1996 , pp. 191 - 201
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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