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 applied chemicals. Population based analysis methods provide a means for reducing experimental effort for parameter estimation and are meanwhile well established 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 population based analysis works equally well in environmental sciences as in pharmacokinetics. As an example, the evaluation of pesticide degradation in several soils is presented.