FINAL COMMUNIQUE,
October 15–17, 2001
REPORT
OF THE MEETING OF THE FEDERAL PROVINCIAL TERRITORIAL COMMITTEE ON PEST
MANAGEMENT AND PESTICIDES
October 15–17, 2001, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
The fifth meeting of the Federal Provincial Territorial
Committee on Pest Management and Pesticides (FPT Committee) was recently
held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island co-chaired by Don Reeves,
Manager, Pesticide Regulatory Program, PEI Department of Agriculture and
Forestry and Wendy Sexsmith, Chief Registrar, Pest Management Regulatory
Agency (PMRA), Health Canada.
This committee brings together provincial, territorial,
and federal representatives who are involved in pesticide regulation,
use, and management so they can exchange information and better
coordinate pest management issues. The regulation of pesticides in
Canada is governed under both federal and provincial legislation. Strong
linkages are needed for effective, efficient management and solutions to
shared issues. The FPT Committee also serves as a vehicle for the
discussion of current pesticide and pest management issues.
Following a successful inauguration last year, a second
annual Technical Session was held. This half-day session presentation
featured an overview of the risk assessment and decision-making
processes used by the PMRA for pest control products undergoing
re-evaluation. Main areas of discussion at the FPT Committee meeting
included:
• ongoing issues regarding pesticides of special
interest, including imidicloprid and honeybees, and strychnine and
Richardson’s ground squirrels;
• ongoing activities relating to the product re-evaluation process;
• an update on the PMRA’s Risk Reduction Strategy for pest management in
agriculture;
• the decision to implement an FPT working group on pesticide risk
indicators;
• access to reduced risk pesticides and international harmonization;
• the need to review/re-examine the FPT Committee mechanics and
responsibilities;
• Minor Use and Emergency Registration issues.
Other topics covered included:
• the status of the Pest Control Products Act and Species at Risk
Legislation;
• a summary of Emergency Registration decisions for 2001;
• Joint Review programs under the NAFTA Technical Working Group on
Pesticides;
• activities under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development
Pesticides Programme and Working Group on Pesticides.
Working
Group Reports
The FPT Committee addresses many of its priority issues
through its associated working groups.
Following is a summary of progress made by the working
groups since the FPT Committee met last year in Ottawa.
The Healthy Lawns Working Group provided an update of
activities currently underway, including the development of a Healthy
Lawns web site. Key messages for homeowner education were also
presented, including the need to emphasize practices to reduce reliance
on pesticides in lawn care, and the establishment of committees with
stakeholders to address key Healthy Lawns work elements.
The Classification Implementation Working Group asked the
FPT Committee for agreement in principle to change the current
classification criteria to include five new categories of pesticides.
These categories include lower risk and higher risk domestic products,
lower risk and higher risk commercial products, and restricted products.
FPT members will seek approval from their respective jurisdictions to
consult with stakeholders on the proposal.
Future
direction will include:
Consultation on a draft regulation with the FPT working
group. If the regulation goes forward, the collection of data on all
products from all registrants and the implementation of the product data
base could begin by 2002. FPT Committee members stressed the importance
of receiving sales information by province, not by region.
The Working Group on Pesticide Education, Training and
Certification (WG-PETC) provided an update on their activities,
including the status of their work on the IPM module for applicators and
the training module for domestic vendors.
PMRA staff distributed a first draft of the buffer zone
proposal to the FPT Committee. Following member review of the proposal,
a time will be established for a face-to-face meeting of the FPT Buffer
Zone Working Group.
Stakeholder
Involvement
Prior to commencement of the formal FPT Committee
meeting, a stakeholder session was held. Presentations were made to the
FPT Committee by
Canadian Aerial Applicators Association,
Urban Pest Management Council of Canada,
Canadian Manufacturers of Chemical Specialties,
CropLife Canada,
Canadian Horticultural Council,
Canadian Federation of Agriculture,
Bayer Corporation,
The Industry Task Force II on 2, 4-D Research Data.
Topics raised by stakeholders included drafting a
workable NAFTA label, pesticide training, perceptions and misconceptions
of turf pesticides, pest management systems on farms, healthy lawns, and
minor use activities and directions.
The next meeting of the FPT Committee is planned for
Regina and will be held October 21–23, 2002.
Update on the Re-evaluation of the Organophosphate Pesticides.
December
7, 2001
The
purpose of this Regulatory Note is to advise registrants, pesticide
regulatory officials and the Canadian public of the status of the
re-evaluation of organophosphate (OP) pesticides in Canada and the
United States, and of the ongoing efforts to harmonize the pesticide
regulatory systems.
Read
the details here:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pmra-arla/english/pdf/rev/rev_2001-05-e.pdf
A Canadian
Perspective on the Precautionary Approach /Principle - Public
Consultation:
A federal initiative to discuss the application of the
precautionary approach/principle in
science-based regulatory programs is currently underway. If you would like to read the government's
discussion document on the subject, or
submit comments, please follow the link to the
Health Canada website:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/protection/precaution.html
Improved Healthy Lawns web site is now on-line.
Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA),
in partnership with provincial and territorial governments, is updating
the popular Healthy Lawns
web
site. The web site,
a comprehensive source of information for home owners and green
space professionals
on establishing and maintaining
a healthy lawn using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices,
will
now include:
* many new links to up-to-date information on
establishing and maintaining lawns following the principles of
Integrated Pest Management;
* helpful tips about reduced risk pest management and
pest prevention strategies;
* improved navigational menu bars for a more
user-friendly web site.
The Healthy Lawns web site is an initiative of the
Healthy Lawns Strategy. The Strategy, part of the
Action Plan on
Urban Use Pesticides, was launched in October 2000 as part of the
Government of
Canada's response to the Standing
Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development's
report on
pesticides. The Strategy places particular emphasis
on pest prevention, use of reduced-risk
products and application of
pesticides only when necessary. It has been developed
through a
partnership between PMRA and the provincial and territorial
governments, with input from stakeholders.
The redesigned Healthy Lawns web site incorporates suggestions made at
the March 2001
Stakeholder
Meeting and has a
format that is consistent with other federal department web sites.
The
March meeting report is available on the web site.
The revised web site can be found at
www.healthylawns.net
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Please be advised that the following documents have been updated on
the
PMRA Web site:
Fact Sheet on Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) Treated Wood
This
document provides a summary of the current information available on
Chromated
Copper
Arsenate (CCA) used as a preservative for wood. Health
Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory
Agency (PMRA) and the United States
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are actively
cooperating to
re-evaluate CCA according to current scientific standards. Current risk
assessment methods are being employed in this re-evaluation, which will
include
consideration
of workers’ exposure and a special focus on
sensitive subpopulations such as children who may
come in contact with
treated wood.
Read
this entire document in pdf format at:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pmra-arla/english/pdf/fact/fs_cca-e.pdf
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Regulatory
Proposal PRO2001-02
Harmonization
of environmental chemistry and
fate
data requirements under NAFTA
The
purpose of this document is to provide information on proposed changes
to the
Pest Management
Regulatory Agency’s environmental chemistry and fate data requirements
for conventional chemical pesticides on terrestrial food crops (PMRA
Use–Site Category 14).
These proposed changes implement the agreements
reached with the United States Environmental
Protection Agency under the
North American Free Trade Agreement Technical Working Group
on Pesticides. It is proposed that these changes will come
into effect on January 1, 2003.
Read
the full article
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Regulatory
Decision Documents:
Difenoconazole
Fungicide
The
manufacturing concentrate Dividend MG and fungicide seed treatments
Dividend 36FS
and
Summary
of Regulatory Rationales for Approved Uses of Imidacloprid.
A number of additional uses for imidacloprid have been approved since
the initial registration
of this insecticide in 1995. These uses and the
rationales for their approval are discussed here
and summarised in the
attached Appendix I. Other uses also have been proposed but were
found
not to meet the criteria outlined in REG97-01, Admire.
Read the rest of this announcement in
PDF format.
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Dividend
360FS (Pest Control Products Act registration numbers 25776, 25775 and
25633),
which contain
difenoconazole as the active ingredient, are eligible for full
registration pursuant to
Section 13 of the Pest Control Products (PCP)
Regulations.
This
decision document outlines this stage of the Pest Management Regulatory
Agency’s
(PMRA) regulatory decision-making process concerning the use
of difenoconazole products
for the control of certain seed-borne,
soil-borne and foliar diseases of spring and winter wheat.
Read the rest of this announcement in
PDF format
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