Homologa™ Blog

Homologa™, The Global Crop Protection Database of MRLs and current product registrations is a product from Agrobase-Logigram. The company is located in France in the Haute Savoie Region on the border to Geneva, Switzerland. For more information go to www.agrobase-logigram.com

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The office view. The rainbow lasted about 3 hours... 

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ANNOUNCEMENT

The Global Crop Protection Database “Homologa” is now available in form of individual reports

We would like to draw your attention to the Homologa-Reports that provide you with the information on authorized plant protection products for 70 countries on all continents by crop, by pest, by active ingredient and by product. The information includes registration status, maximum residue limits (MRL), and industry information. Please refer to: http://reports.homologa.com

For more details and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us: http://reports.homologa.com/en/contact

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We have created a "Selection grid" for Homologa. It is an overall image of the available columns/fields in Homologa (alert and online). You can download the selection grid in the documents on the following page: http://www.homologa-new.com/pls/apex/f?p=550:3:0::NO.

To navigate the selection grid, we suggest you use the filters in the column headings. This will help you to find the information you are looking for. Once you have the selection you wish, you can then choose between the online reports and the alert reports (scroll to the right) to see where you can find the information you are looking for. 

The image above shows only a small portion of the grid.

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Small changes on the Homologa menu...

We have made some minor changes on the Homologa menu. There is now an extra tab about "How to access" the database. For the users, nothing has changed. You can login as usually and inside your login, everything remains the same.

Don't hesitate to contact us via the "contacts" page if you need any help, advice or information...

The Agrobase Team

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Frequently asked questions by new Homologa users

Questions about MRLs:

1.       How are the future MRLs shown?

When there are several values in the same cell, the second one represents the MRL value that will be implemented in the future.

We display the future MRLs in the following way:

“0.05 0.02 12/07”

This means that the MRL currently applicable is 0.05 PPM and that an MRL of 0.02 will be applied in the future. The third item in the cell is the date from which the future value will be applied (month/year format).

“0.05 0.02 ?”

In this case, we do not know the date of application of the future value 0.02, so we mark it as '?'.

“NO 0.02 08/07”

This means we do not have the actual MRL but we have the future MRL and the date from which it will be applied.

   2.       What if there is no MRL?

If no MRL exists for the country/crop/active combination I am looking for, where can I find the information about default MRLs?

Where no specific MRL is listed in the results, a general default MRL may apply. You can find the specific legislation by country concerning the default MRLs in the module “Comments on countries” under the menu point “Mrls”.

  Questions about registered products:

 1.       Can I find the strains of the biological substances?

Not yet, but will introduce them during the next months.

 2.       How do I find the off-label and temporary registrations?

You find this information in the field "Reg.Type" in the module "brand-level with crops". This information is also available in the alert/download option in the report type "Products/Crops details" in the column "Reg.Type"

 3.       Where do I find the registration date?

You find this information in the field "Reg.Date" in the module "brand-level with crops”. In order to view the “Reg.Date” column, you need to click on “crop details”. Or you can find it in the alert/download option in the report type "Products/Crops details" in the column "Reg.Date". For older products it is well possible that there is no date available.

 4.       Where do I find the dose rates, PHIs etc…?

You find this information in the field "Dose Rate" in the module "brand-level with crops". In order to view the “Dose Rate” column, you need to click on “crop details”.  Or you can find it in the alert/download option in the report type "Products/Crops details" in the column "Dose Rate". For older products it is well possible that there is no date available.

The above questions all refer to the same module “brand-level with crops” and consequently to the same alert/download report type “Products/Crops details”. In the alert/download report you have all the columns whereas online, for the time being, you need to go on “Crop Details” to view the registrations date and the dose rates.

Online reports -> Product Registrations -> Brand-level with crops:

  Alert/download reports -> Complete data -> Products/Crops Details:

 5.       Where can I find the risk phrases?

You can find them by clicking on the “phrases” link in the modules: Brand-level and brand-level with crops.

If you need reports with risk phrases for many products, please contact us.

 6.       What does “crop original” mean?

To be able to compare crop information on international level we have to allocate specific crops imprecise crop definitions like 'other vegetables'. To show the user what was originally meant we add the original crop name in the column “Crop Orig.”.

 7.       Where to find the last update dates?

Click here and you will get the list that you can sort by date or country.

 8.       How to find parallel imports?

You will find this information in all alert modules where the product registrations are shown. You also can add the corresponding fields in the online module by adding the “Para.Import” column to the report.

 and then select the column “Para.Import” and add it to the “Display in Report” selection field.

Then press “Apply” and the column will be added to the end of the report. In the “Display in Report” field, you can change the order of the columns.

 9.       Why do we not have the Latin pest name for all cases?

Many sources of data or labels are not specific and only give us a general name like 'sucking insects' or 'bugs'. We do not know how to translate it in the correct Latin name and therefore leave it as it is in the original data source.

  We hope that these short answers will help you to work with Homologa. 

Please note that if you have any questions, suggestions or need further informations, do not hesitate to contact us. You will find our contact details in the “Contacts” tab directly in Homologa.

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Presentation of Agrobase-Logigram done by the CCI (Chambre de Commerce et de l'Industrie) of Annecy, FR. 

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Homologa was presented by IDRG (International Development of Regulatory Globalization) on the IBMA (International Biocontrol Manufacturers' Association) stand in Berlin at Fruit Logistica 2014!

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Updated country coverage maps for product registrations and Mrls in Homologa.

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Patricia has returned from Canada. A picture taken at the PMC Canada before the workshop!

The Canadian Ministry has a Global subscription to Homologa.

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News about Homologa™

Greenbook and Agrobase announce data license agreement:

Greenbook USA is a database built on product labels and we have now partially integrated this information into Homologa. Users have direct access to US labels and Msds sheets. With the US data, Agrobase fills the gap for pest information in the Homologa database. Hence, the users can now search by crop and pest in the major countries worldwide. Globally the Homologa database has doubled in size by adding the Greenbook data and extended the spectrum of crops and pests. For the USA we now have 2 sources of data: EPA and Greenbook. We keep both sources as they contain complementary information. Greenbook allows you to search detailed pest information and contains label information whereas EPA is the official legislation but contains less detail.

New countries:

In addition to the USA-Greenbook data, we have also added recently new registration data for several countries to the database:

Bangladesh

Cuba

Croatia

Indonesia 

We also added new MRL standards for the following countries:

Indonesia

Hong-Kong

Vietnam

We hope that this new addition will be beneficial for your individual projects.

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Homologa™ Brochure

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Find more references and links that talk about Homologa on our “Press/Media” page: http://www.agrobase-logigram.com/pages/media.html

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Homologa www.homologa.com is linked in the "general" section of the European Crop Protection Association links.