Dr. Turner has 15 years of regulatory experience with plant protection products, working for both government and industry. He has a comprehensive knowledge of EU Regulatory evaluation procedures and risk assessment methods, including relevant guidelines and EC Directives as they pertain to existing and new active substances.
Dr. Turner joined Exponent from the FMC Corporation, where he held a position of Registration Manager for EurAsia. In this role, he took overall responsibility for the regulatory management of insecticide active substances. This included the preparation and support of dossiers to support reviews at national and EU level, commissioning and monitoring new studies, and assisting with regulatory issues. He also had additional responsibility for regulatory issues at national level for a number of European and non-European countries including the UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Czech and Slovak Republics, Poland, and Switzerland which included registration of new products, extension to product labels, and other regulatory activities to support commercial goals. In addition to Dr. Turner’s general regulatory management, he was also the principal ecotoxicology scientist for the European team. Activities in this area included organizing and monitoring ecotoxicology studies and conducting or managing environmental risk assessments.
Before joining FMC, Dr. Turner worked for 10 years at the Pesticide Safety Directorate (PSD; now CRD (Chemicals Regulatory Directorate. At PSD, he was a regulatory project manager coordinating the evaluation of applications, as well as national and European regulatory controls and registration procedures for plant protection products. Dr. Turner then moved to the environment group working as a specialist in ecotoxicology, where he wrote Draft Assessment Reports (DARs) for the approval of pesticides under EU Directive 91/414/EEC, commented on DARs written by other Member States and the conclusions drawn by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). He was also involved conducting national ecotoxicology assessments of applications for registration under national and EU legislation.
Dr. Turner participated in the twinning process for the accession states prior to them joining the European Union. In both his co-ordination and specialist roles he gave training to ensure that the accessions states national procedures met current EU requirements.
Cilgi T, Wratten SD, Robertson JL, Turner DE, Holland JM, Frampton GK. Residual toxicities of three insecticides to four species (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of arthropod predator. Can Entomologist 1996; 128:1115-1124.
Turner DE. Reduced rate insecticide use in cereals: Effects on pests and predators. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995.
Turner DE, Devonshire AL. Factors affecting the selection of insecticide resistant Myzus persicae. Vector Dynamics and Insecticide Resistance SBREC Report, 1995.
Turner, D. The use of reduced-rate deltamethrin to control summer aphid pests of UK cereals. Bull IOBC/WPRS 1994; 17:57-67.
Cilgi T, Holland JM, Turner DE, Frampton GK Wratten SD, Jepson PC. Pesticide drift and the potential toxicity to beneficial carbids. Bull IOBC/WPRS 1994; 17:220–236.
Turner, D. Efficacy of reduced rate insecticide use against cereal aphids. BCPC Pest Dis1992; 2:575-580.
Hickman JM, MacLeod A, Turner D, Wratten SD, Longley M. Prospects for the compatible use of biological agents and insecticides in arable crops. Pesticides Outlook 1992; 4(3):11-14.