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Answers to other common questions are available in the document 'PPDB Questions and Answers' on the PPDB website. Information on the management and data acquisition of the database can be found in a document ‘Background and Support’ that is also available on the PPDB website. A simple guide to using the database ‘Instructions for use’ is also available.  \nPlease read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the website and/or database. By using our website and/or database, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our database or website.  \nUsing the information in the database  \n• The information contained in the BPDB web pages can be used free of charge for academic and noncommercial use provided proper reference to the database is given. This reference should also be included when linking to the MS Access database from other websites. The general reference that should be used to refer to the database is as follows:  \nTzilivakis, J., Lewis, K.A., Green, A. and Warner, D.J. (2026) A decade of growth and impact of the Pesticide Properties Database (PPDB) . Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 1–26. DOI: 10. 1080/10807039 .2026.2702066  \nLewis, K.A., Tzilivakis, J., Warner, D. and Green, A. (2016) . An international database for pesticide risk assessments and management. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 22(4):  \n1050-1064. DOI: 10. 1080/10807039 .2015.1133242  \nIf you are using and so referencing pesticide dissipation on or in plant matrices then the following reference may be appropriate:  \nLewis, K. & Tzilivakis, J. (2017) . Development of a data set of pesticide dissipation rates in/on various plant matrices for the Pesticide Properties DataBase (PPDB) . Data, 2(3), 28. DOI: 10.3390/data2030028  \nWhen refering to wild bee toxicity data, the below may be more appropriate:  \nLewis, K.A. & Tzilivakis, J. (2019) . Wild bee toxicity data for pesticide risk assessments. Data, 4(3): 98. DOI: 10.3390/data4030098  \nIf you wish to cite this website generally or for a specific substance, please use the following citation(s) in addition to the articles above:  \nAERU. (2026) . Pesticide Properties Database (PPDB). Agriculture and Environment Research Unit (AERU), University of Hertfordshire, UK. Available at: [https://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/](https://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/) (Last  \naccessed: 23/07/2026) .  \nIf you wish to cite a specific substance then please adapt the citation accordingly by adding the substance name and ID/URL. For example:  \nAERU. (2026) . Pesticide Properties Database (PPDB): Lindane. Agriculture and Environment Research Unit (AERU), University of Hertfordshire, UK. Available at:  \n[https://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/en/Reports/370.htm](https://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/en/Reports/370.htm) (Last accessed: 23/07/2026) .  \n• Data may not be copied, reproduced, republished, posted, broadcast or transmitted in any way without first obtaining the University of Hertfordshire’s written permission and only after a licence is in place.  \n• For journal articles where Open Data and/or Data Availability Statements are needed (i.e. where authors are encouraged to make the research data underlying their articles publicly available, e.g. through deposition in a public database), please cite the PPDB as your data source with a link to the online database (i.e. [https://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/](https://sitem.herts.ac.uk/aeru/ppdb/) ) as it is a public database. 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