match.ppdb: Expend tables with information on ecotoxicity, fate (and...

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Expend tables with information on ecotoxicity, fate (and human health) properties from PPDB

Description

Expend tables with information on ecotoxicity, fate (and human health) properties from PPDB

Usage

match.ppdb(substances, products, folder, healthrisk_off = TRUE)

Arguments

substances	Dataframe describing active ingredients of the applied pesticide products and their CAS number.
products	Dataframe with raw pesticide application data.
folder	Folder with exported xlsx files from PPDB containing information on active ingredient properties.
healthrisk_off	Compute the Human Health risk sum score from the PPDb (default off).

Value

Adds Ecotoxicity and Fate properties of active substances needed to compute the Pesticide Load Indicator to user-provided substance and product data frames. Properties are based on information from the Pesticide Properties Database (PPDB), which has to be provided by the user in Excel format (license required). Note that the function can optionally also retrieve the sum of risk scores for Human Health from the PPDB, based on active ingredient-level risk phrases in the PPDB. This is not recommended. Best practice is to compute the sum of risk scores based on risk phrases of the respective pesticide product (see Kudsk et al., 2018 for weighing of respective risk phrases). Product label information cannot be retrieved from the PPDB as labels might be country-specific. Check national pesticide databases for this information. Note that you have to add teh reference value for sum.risk.scores, as follows, if you select healthrisk_off=TRUE: products$reference.sum.risk.scores <- 300

PesticideLoadIndicator documentation built on Oct. 24, 2022, 5:07 p.m.