International Trade committee  Often the labels can be 60 pages long—

International Trade committee  —with all the uses. What we're seeing our industry moving toward, what we'd like to move toward, is enabling that user to be able to scan that bar code or QR code. Then if he's applying his product to corn and he doesn't need to read the six pages about soybeans, he just goes rig

International Trade committee  From our perspective, when we're talking about trade in the broader context, it's agricultural trade. It's issues like maximum residue limits that are different. Farmers can't export their crops to certain countries because of different residue definitions or different residue le

International Trade committee  When we look at pesticide labels versus many other regulated commodities, and I don't pretend to know all those other regulated commodities as well as I know pesticides, certainly the pesticide label is a legal document that really spells out the approved use pattern of that prod

International Trade committee  When we look at the definition of label under FIFRA, the legislation that covers pesticides in the U.S., it doesn't have the “belonging to” scope. It also doesn't have the very specific “as required under the act and regs”, so it's kind of in between. That's why I said we're op

International Trade committee  We had some discussions in terms of trying to understand the scope and if they had any issues with their current definitions, and if, in an ideal world, they would change them. There hasn't been any specific issues related to the definition down there.

International Trade committee  Potentially, it could. We've done quite a bit as you know around pesticides and environments, especially between Canada and the U.S. in harmonization, data packages, and that kind of thing. There's been a lot of work already done. Labels are country specific, though, and unique i

International Trade committee  I think separating out the definition of “package” from “label” will enable exactly what you're saying. It will enable that trade to take place for products in transit. We're not proposing any changes to that element. The new label definition is quite a bit broader in scope. We a

International Trade committee  Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for allowing me to present here today. My name is Pierre Petelle. I'm the vice-president of chemistry at CropLife Canada. We're the trade association that represents the manufacturers,

Health committee  Yes. Just to clarify, 15 years is the absolute limit in the sense that if there is no other major evaluation of that product or no major new use of that product, at minimum in 15 years it will be re-evaluated. But if anything comes in in the meantime, whether it is incident repor

Health committee  Drugs are a good example, and I would argue that the pesticide regulatory system is very analogous to the drug review and that the pre-market assessment is virtually identical in terms of requirements. In fact, we have an additional requirement because we have to do environmental

Health committee  That's a great question, Mr. Chair. Regulatory data is designed to show the extreme scenario. When we talk about the half-life of a product—I'll use neonics as a good example—we often hear that products can last three years or more in the soil. The reason you're hearing that st

Health committee  In terms of the conditional registration, it's very clear when that can be used. The data to conduct a risk assessment, both for human health and for the environment, has to be sufficient for the PMRA to be able to conduct their full risk assessment without those data that are co

Health committee  My understanding.... I mean, this is now an active ingredient-specific case, which we typically wouldn't get into a discussion on. My understanding in that particular example is that the conditions have actually been satisfied over that decade. They're not the same conditions tha

Health committee  Absolutely, and if you look at the requirements for insecticides moving forward, you see that it's going to be much more time-consuming and costly to get those products registered because of the additional data requirements that will now become more standard. It goes back to my