Pest Control Products Regulations

Marginal note:Additional information required

8 In addition to the information required by section 6, the applicant must provide the Minister with any other information that the Minister may require to evaluate the health and environmental risks and the value of the pest control product, including, if relevant to the product and its conditions or proposed conditions of registration, the results of scientific investigations respecting any of the following:

• (a) the efficacy of the pest control product for its intended purpose;

• (b) the risks posed by the pest control product and its derivatives to humans or animals that may be exposed to it, including when it is manufactured, handled, stored, transported or distributed or during or after its use or disposal, in accordance with its conditions or proposed conditions of registration;

• (c) the effect of the pest control product and its derivatives on host organisms in connection with which it is intended to be used;

• (d) the effect of the pest control product and its derivatives on representative species of organisms not targeted by its intended use;

• (e) the degree of persistence, retention and movement of the pest control product and its derivatives in the environment, including the degree to which the pest control product and its derivatives may leach or dislodge from things treated with the product;

• (f) acceptable methods of analysis for detecting the components and measuring the specifications of the pest control product;

• (g) acceptable methods of analysis for detecting and determining the amount of the pest control product and its derivatives in human food, animal feed and the environment when the product is used in accordance with its conditions or proposed conditions of registration;

• (h) appropriate methods for detoxifying or neutralizing the pest control product in water, air or soil, or on any surface;

• (i) appropriate methods for disposing of the pest control product and its empty packages;

• (j) the stability of the pest control product under normal conditions of storage and display;

• (k) the compatibility of the pest control product with other pest control products with which it is recommended to be, or is likely to be, mixed;

• (l) the effect of mixing the pest control product or using it simultaneously with other pest control products on its value and the health and environmental risks associated with its use;

• (m) the chemical and physical properties, or the species or strain and biological properties, of the pest control product, its composition, and specifications and processes for its manufacture, including quality control processes;

• (n) the fate of the pest control product in humans or animals exposed to it, including the identity and quantity of all the major metabolites and other derivatives that result from its use;

• (o) the residues of the pest control product and its derivatives that may remain in or on human food or animal feed after its use in accordance with its conditions or proposed conditions of registration;

• (p) the risks posed to humans or animals exposed to the pest control product or its derivatives through their diet or drinking water when the product is used in accordance with its conditions or proposed conditions of registration;

• (q) the effect of storing and processing, including post-market processing, human food or animal feed in relation to which the pest control product was used on the dissipation or degradation of the pest control product and any of its derivatives;

• (r) the proposed maximum residue limits for the pest control product and its derivatives in or on human food; and

• (s) the fate of the pest control product and its derivatives in subsequent crops of human food or animal feed.