Population based analysis of pesticide kinetics

Kinetic evaluations play an essential role in the registration procedure of drugs and pesticides for quantifying the exposition of organisms to the ap plied chemicals. Population based analysis methods provide a means for redu cing experimental effort for parameter estimation and are meanwhile well es tablished in pharmaceutical research. In spite of many similarities between pesticide and drug development, this promising procedure up to now has not been transferred to environmental sciences. In this paper, we show that po pulation based analysis works equally well in environmental sciences as in pharmacokinetics. As an example, the evaluation of pesticide degradation in several soils is presented.