Report from the Pest Management Advisory Council

Best Management Practices for Bed Bugs

Réaction aux Punaises des Lits

Réaction aux Punaises des Lits dans les Appartements

Réaction aux Punaises des Lits Dans les Écoles

Réaction aux Punaises des Lits Dans les hôtels et les installations d’hébergement

Réaction aux Punaises des Lits Dans les établissements de santé

Réaction aux Punaises des Lits Dans les bureaux

Réaction aux Punaises des Lits dans les magasins de vente au détail

Réaction aux Punaises des Lits dans le transport collectif

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PMRA Response to Urban Pesticides Questions

Recently the PMRA responded to a number of questions that were posed surrounding the urban pesticides issue by a national grower group, Grain Growers of Canada. The questions were focused on the recurring themes/allegations that are commonly raised by anti-pesticide activists. Although there is no date and it is not on letterhead, it was provided as an attachment to the response letter from Trish MacQuarrie, Director General of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at PMRA on January 18, 2010. 

Click here for the letter to PMRA from the Grain Growers of Canada.

Click here for PMRA's response.

PMRA Completes Rodenticide Reevaluation —Additional Restrictions Required

The Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has completed its reevaluation of eight rodenticides and is requiring additional mitigation measures to address concerns about ecological risks and risks to children and pets.  The eight rodenticides are brodifacoum, bromadiolone, bromethalin, chlorophacinone, difethialone, diphacinone, warfarin, and zinc phosphide.  The Executive Summary of PMRA’s decision can be found by clicking here.  With a few exceptions (e.g. the prohibition against using brodifacoum and difethialone outside of a structure), the mitigation measures adopted by PMRA are in-line with the recommendations made by CPMA.

Restrictions On Bird Control Products

The Ontario Ministries of the Environment and Natural Resources have provided the pest control industry with a pesticide memorandum of the current Peregrine Falcon Recovery sites with a request that bird control products such as 4-amino pyridine and strychnine impregnated corn not be used within a 7.5 km radius of these sites and that alternative methods be considered.

Click here to view a copy of the memorandum.

In addition, PMRA has released a proposed rodenticide re-evaluation. The document can be found by clicking here.

Letter to PMRA - URMULE Program

Click here to view a letter from CPMA to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) regarding the control of bed bugs in commercial and residential structures in accordance to the URMULE program.

Links for the Ministry of Environment

Nova Scotia  www.gov.ns.ca/enla/

New Brunswick  www.gnb.ca/0009/index-e.asp

Newfoundland   www.env.gov.nl.ca/env/

Prince Edward Island  www.gov.pe.ca/enveng/

Classification Harmonization for Canada, A Proposal for Domestic Class Pesticides, 2007

Prepared by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Committee on Pest Management and Pesticides.

Click here for the English version.

Click here for the French version.