1. UK overview
Select a region. This card displays the ranked concern of each region by aggregating score of each pressures and response. High/moderate/low scores cuts the regions by 3 equal parts.
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2. Drilldown to region
Select a region. This card displays contributing pressures and responses to overall score.
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3. Drilldown to facotrs
This card allows you to drill down to the data that contributes to the final score. Currenlty, these are threshold exceedances.
Click on chemicals to view statistics.
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SLI Timeline: Regulatory History and Use of Selected Chemicals
Companion-animal ectoparasiticides — regulatory milestones and use trends
Regulatory milestone type
Discovery / market entry
Approval / expansion
Regulation / restriction
Ban / policy end
HISTORY TIMELINE
(Regulatory milestones)
USE OVER TIME
(Annual sales, kg)
Fipronil
Ectoparasiticide (phenylpyrazole)
1987
Discovered
1992
Introduced to the UK (agriculture, biocidal, veterinary use)
2007
Approved as active substance (Directive 91/414/EEC)
EFSA high risk to honey bees; seed treatments banned
2017
Banned in agricultural use
Imidacloprid
Ectoparasiticide (neonicotinoid)
1985
First synthesised
1991
First marketed and used
2004
Approved as active substance (EU regulation)
2013
EFSA high risk to honey bees
2014
Restricted for bee-attractive crops
2018
Ban in outdoor use (greenhouse use allowed)
2023
End of emergency authorisations
Fluralaner
Ectoparasiticide (isoxazoline)
2014
Approved for veterinary use (EMA CVMP)
2015
Expansion of use (cats & poultry)
History timeline: key regulatory events (source: events dataset).
Use over time: annual sales (kg) by product form; shaded bands mark regulatory events for the selected chemical.
About this visual tool
This visual tool allows users to overlay several datasets to visualize their links in order to build an integrated understanding of chemical pollution. It also provides a demonstration to display a regional overall state of the environment indicator.
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Case study causal loop diagrams
The follow causal loop diagrams were developed as part of the case study reports for the tool.
