ISO 1750 Pesticides and other agrochemicals — Common names and preferred names
When a revision of ISO 765 to convert it into the same format as ISO 1750 was planned in 2024, it was realised that the names in both standards serve the same function. It was therefore decided to merge the content of ISO 765 into a new edition of ISO 1750 with an enlarged scope and a new title. This will benefit customers, because they need to consult only one standard to find the ISO name of a pesticide. It will also benefit the Maintenance Agency, because they will need to maintain only one set of XML files.
The data in ISO 765:2016 will be replaced with data from the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names. The images of structural formulae will replaced with ones in scaleable SVG format from the Compendium of Pesticide Common Names.
The XML data set includes complete French names and data, but AFNOR do not want to publish a French version of the third edition. To make the French names and data available to customers, they will be included in the English version.
The new edition is expected to be published in 2027.
Project leadership
The project is being led by Alan Wood under the ISO 1750 Maintenance Agency. Alan has been a member of the BSI and ISO committees that assign common names of pesticides for over 40 years, and developed the XML data format and the XSL stylesheets that made the revision of ISO 1750 and the annual updates possible.
Ongoing
- Revision of ISO 1750:2023 Pesticides and other agrochemicals — Common names