Environmental Project, 982 – Quantification and Identification of Active Microorganisms in Microbial Plant Protection Products

Quantification and Identification of Active Microorganisms in Microbial Plant Protection Products

Preface

The present report is the product of a project financed by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Danish EPA) entitled "Quantification and identification of active micro-organisms in microbial plant protection products". The project was initiated in January 2004 and editing of this report was finalized in September 2004. The project was conducted by Department of Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology, National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), Roskilde with laboratory aid by technician Anne Grethe Holm-Jensen and consultancy by senior scientist Bjarne Munk Hansen. Karin Pedersen-Ulrich, Chemical Inspection Service, collected the microbial plant protection products from the national distributors BioProduction, Borregaard Bioplant ApS, Cillus A/S, DDH (Hedeselskabet), and Garta. The steering committee members were Jørn Kirkegård, (head), Anita Fjelsted, both Danish EPA, professor Jørgen Eilenberg and associate professor Ole Nybroe, both the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Copenhagen, and senior scientist Anne Winding, NERI.