Safety maturity model in the use of agricultural defensives

The growth in world food production consequently generates a greater demand for agricultural defensives. If, on one hand, the use of them provides an increase in agricultural productivity and a decrease in losses, on the other, their improper use can generate environmental impacts with risks to human health, especially if safety requirements are inadequate. Thus, this article proposes a safety maturity model in the use of agricultural defensives. A review was carried out in the literature with the keywords "Pesticides and Safety", "Pesticides and Foods", "Pesticides and Good habits", "Pesticides and Maturity", "Pesticides and transport", in the Web of Science (WOS) and Scielodatabases in the period from 2005 to 2020. Based on the literature, assertions of good practices in the use of agricultural defensives were identified and organized by the following variables: acquisition, transport, storage, application, preparation, cleansing and disposal of containers.