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Pest Control Products Incident Reporting Regulations

Version of section 2 from 2022-01-01 to 2024-10-30:


Marginal note:Incident categories

 Incidents are classified, according to the subject and effects of the exposure to the pest control product, into the following categories:

  • (a) an incident whose effect is a human death;

  • (b) an incident that has a major effect on a human, namely, that human had or has symptoms that indicate a condition that could be life-threatening or result in adverse reproductive or developmental effects or in chronic disability;

  • (c) an incident that has an effect on a human other than the effects set out in paragraph (a) or (b);

  • (d) an incident whose effect is an animal death or, if the incident occurs in the United States, a domestic animal death;

  • (e) an incident that has an effect on an animal other than death;

  • (f) an incident that has an effect on terrestrial or aquatic plants;

  • (g) an incident of package failure that could result in the exposure of a human to a pest control product or in injury to a human; and

  • (h) an incident whose effects are identified in a scientific study, namely, that the effects are observed during a human epidemiological study or a scientific investigation, whether concluded, discontinued or ongoing, and the study or investigation is sponsored by the registrant or applicant and indicates

    • (i) any new health or environmental hazard associated with a pest control product,

    • (ii) any health or environmental risk associated with a pest control product that may be greater than the risk determined at the time of registration, or

    • (iii) the presence of a previously undetected component or derivative of a pest control product.

  • SOR/2009-94, s. 1(F)
  • SOR/2019-173, s. 3

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