Canada announces pesticide review plan

Date:05-29-2015

The Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the plans for pesticide re-evaluation and special review work for the years 2015-2018. There are some 35 active ingredients or groups of ais to be re-evaluated between April 2015 and March 2016.

The documents to be published may include:
• Re-evaluation Notes (REV series), including preliminary risk assessments, special review proposed decisions, interim mitigation measures or updates;
• Proposed Re-evaluation Decisions (PRVD series); and
• Re-evaluation Decisions (RVD series).

Tables below provide a list of the chemicals and their expected documents included in the Re-evaluation Program Work Plan for 2015-2018.

Table 1a Re-evaluation Work Plan from April 2015 to March 2016

Table 1b Special Review Work Plan from April 2015 to March 2016


Table 2a Re-evaluation Work Plan from April 2016 to March 2017


Table 2b Special Review Work Plan from April 2016 to March 2017


Table 3a Re-evaluation Work Plan from April 2017 to March 2018


Table 3b Special Review Work Plan from April 2017 to March 2018