Color Handbook of Biological Control in Plant Protection

Dr. Brown has an international reputation as an ecotoxicologist and has been actively involved in the development of the current European regulatory requirements (91/414/EEC). He has 20 years experience in the research and development of plant protection products. Before joining Exponent, Dr. Brown managed a contract research facility specialising in the environmental effects of agrochemicals, and was responsible for the design, conduct, and interpretation of higher tier studies with soil fauna, aquatic mesocosms, honey bees, non-target arthropods, and avian radio-tracking studies. Dr. Brown has a great deal of experience of managing complex studies to meet regulatory requirements.In 1989, Dr. Brown was a founder member of the Beneficial Arthropod Testing Group (BART), made up of industry and key contractors to rationalise regulatory testing of non-target arthropods. In the 1990's, Dr. Brown was an active member of the working groups that developed and ring-tested methodology for many of the species currently used in pesticide testing. Dr. Brown was a member of the organising committee of the ESCORT 1 workshop on regulatory testing of pesticides and prepared the Hazard Quotient database (published in Campbell et al. 2000) that formed the basis of the ESCORT 2 workshop in Wageningen (2000). Current European regulatory requirements, with respect to non-target arthropods, are based on the output from this workshop. Dr. Brown was a member of the EU research project EUFRAM on probabilistic risk assessment and a member of the UK PSD project WEBFRAM 4, specifically looking at combining distributions of both toxicity and exposure to quantify risk.Dr. Brown is an invited member of the European Food Standards Agency (EFSA) WG on residues in invertebrates as food items for birds and mammals, and has provided expert advice and training for both agrochemical companies and regulatory authorities. Dr. Brown has recently joined the UK Environmental Panel that provides scientific advice to the Advisory Committee and to the Pesticides Safety Directorate on a range of issues relating to the Environmental Fate and Behaviour and the Ecotoxicology of pesticides.Helyer, Neil is the author of 'Color Handbook of Biological Control in Plant Protection' with ISBN 9780881925999 and ISBN 0881925993.