Research theme: Defence of agricultural plants and propagation material, reviewing phytosanitary product analyses, coordinating the inter-regional programme: 'Checking Phytosanitary Product Residues'.

Laboratory and field research and experimentation into synthesised and natural pesticides in foods (degradation, metabolism, analysis, conversion, photodegradation etc.)

Investations into the behaviour of pesticides in the soil and water: a) chemical and biological degradation under laboratory and field conditions; b) absorption; c) interaction with organic substances; d) quantitative and qualitative aspects of clay minerals and iron hydroxide; e) selecting micro-organisms for the degradation of pesticides either metabolically or cometabolically; f) identification of metabolites; g) determining residuals in agricultural crops (water & soil).

Recognition by the Ministry of Health (Law 120/92) for the study of phytosanitary product residues.  The analyses of phytosanitary product residues and contaminants with the support of the Regional Phytosanitary Service and for the outside use of both the public and private sectors. Studies and research projects in the agricultural food and environment fields.

Research into pesticides residue behaviour in plant production and the environment, with particular reference to those aspects which derive from their application and consequent behaviour in foods and the environment.

Soil Chemistry. Soil Biochemistry. Pesticide Chemistry  Biochemistry. Abiotic absorption and conversion of organic contaminants on clay, organic and organomineral surfaces.

Laboratory and field research and experimentation into the behaviour of phytosanitary products in the environment, agricultural production and food products. Radioisotopic techniques in the study of degradation, metabolism, absorption and mobility (even in the open field) of phytosanitary products. ONR databank management for the collection and processing of the residue level data of the phytosanitary products in agricultural and food production and risk evaluation for the consumer.

Agricultural Chemistry, Pesticides in soil and water, solid-phase interaction with the soil, kinetics and degradation mechanisms, bioagricultural pharmacos.

Study of pesticides absorption into soil colloids. Study of abiotic degradation (chemical and photochemical) of pesticides.

Pesticides Chemistry and Biochemistry, Environmental Agricultural Chemistry, Environmental Biogeochemistry, Agricultural Biochemistry, Humic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry.

Research into the environmental distribution of pesticides: interaction with the soil and risk evaluation for water sources.

Biotic and abiotic degradation of pesticides, soil interaction, accumulation in water, identifying degradation products, reaction kinetics, photochemical properties, photochemical reactions in the liquid phase and upon absorption.

Research and Development of new Pesticides. Preparation and validation of methods to analyse substrate residues. Field testing. Analyses of pesticide residues and their degradation metabolites/products in plant, animal, soil and water substrates and in plant and animal transformations.

Chemistry, Agriculture, Environment, Microbiology.

Phytosanitary product research.

Research into pesticides distribution in the environment by means of state-of-the-art software and bespoke mathematical models. Research into soil biochemistry and xenobiotic interference with microbial biomass.

Official field testing for registration in Laboratory (GLP/BPL) and Experimental Good Practise (GEP). Agricultural and Phytopathology testing of all Mediterranean crops, with phytosanitary products and new technologies. Agricultural consultancy..

Good practise field testing (GEP/GLP) to provide back-up technical dossiers for pesticides registration and review. Efficiency tests on the main crop phytopathologies and phytophagies. Agricultural validation tests for the main extensive crops. Soil dissipation tests. Food transformation studies.

Production and commercialisation of  pesticides.

Chemistry, agronomics, environment.

Agricultural experimentation to test the efficiency and selectivity of phytosanitary products on crops. Residue testing of foodstuffs.

Sampling centre. Physical and chemical analyses of phytosanitary residues to support documentation for registration dossier (D.L.[legal decree] 120). Official field testing for registration according to Good Laboratory (GLP/BPL) and Experimental (GEP) Practise. Phytosanitary consultancy.

Phytosanitary product experimentation. Agronomic and species experimentation.

Efficiency testing.

GEP and GLP field experimentation to evaluate efficiency, selectivity and the residues from phytosanitary products; phytopathological monitoring. 

Phytopharmaco residue research on fruit, vegetables and derivatives, honey, soil and water. Soil, water, honey, cereals and leaves.

Residue, efficiency and selectivity testing.

GEP and GLP field experimentation to evaluate efficiency, selectivity and the residues from phytosanitary products; phytopathological monitoring. Registration consultancy.

Quality assurance manager for laboratory and field – BPL & BPS certified (BPA). Consultant for industry and the use of amino acids and peptides in agriculture.

Research into pesticide-colloid interaction in the soil; pesticide interaction in the soil.

Studies into the behaviour of pesticides in the soil-plant system: persistance, movement, degradation in the soil and modelization; plant absorption, interference with cellular metabolism, detoxification mechanisms and selectivity.