Dear Colleagues,

Directive 2009/128/EC establishes the sustainable use of pesticides by reducing the risks and impacts of pesticide use on human health and the environment and promoting the use of integrated pest management, and alternative approaches or techniques such as non-chemical alternatives to pesticides. In addition, these measures are complementary to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, which declares that a high level of consumer protection needs to be ensured, with provisions relating to maximum levels of pesticide residues in food and feed of plant and animal origin. Pesticide residues include active substances, metabolites, and/or breakdown or reaction products of active substances currently or formerly used in plant protection products. Accordingly, maximum residue level (MRL) refers to the upper legal level of a concentration for a pesticide residue in food or feed set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission and depending on good agricultural practice, and to the lowest consumer exposure necessary to protect vulnerable consumers. Of course, these issues are relevant worldwide, and not only in a European context, and every country adopts its own legislation.

In this very wide context, we invite investigators to submit both original research and review articles that explore all these aspects. Potential topics include but are not limited to innovative natural products potentially exploited in crop protection, including their nanoformulations.

Dr. Sara Sara Vitalini
Prof. Dr. Marcello Iriti
Guest Editors

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• • Biopesticides
• • Biomaterials
• • Nanotechnologies
• • Nanomaterials
• • Nanostructured materials
• • Nanoformulates
• • Food safety
• • Nanotoxicology.