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Table 6 Potential availability of alternative products for authorised uses of CFS-containing candidate products in Germany

From: Comparative assessment of plant protection products: how many cases will regulatory authorities have to answer?

Parameter

All potential candidate products (n= 351)

Potential candidate products containing CFS identified by environmental hazard criteriaa(n= 237)

Availability of alternative products for uses of candidate products

Number of uses

 No alternatives available

1,096

813

 Any alternatives available

767

687

  1 alternative available

220

162

  2 alternatives available

126

112

  3 to 5 alternatives available

172

163

  6 to 10 alternatives available

82

77

  11 to 20 alternatives available

112

118

  21 to 50 alternatives available

42

44

  51 to 100 alternatives available

12

10

  More than 100 alternatives available

1

1

Average spectrum of uses of candidate products

Mean number of usesb

 Including all uses of candidate products

18

18

 Including only uses of candidate products for which alternatives are available

7

8

Average availability of alternatives

Mean number of alternative productsb

 For all uses of candidate products

3

4

 For all uses of candidate products for which alternatives are available

7

8

  1. Scenario based on the status of authorised products in May 2013. Candidate products are products containing one or more potential CFS; alternatives are products containing no potential CFS. aAs defined in the corresponding footnote to Table 4. bArithmetic mean rounded to integer values.