Policies and Guidelines

• Backgrounders
• Guidance Documents
• Label Process Series
• Regulatory Directives
• Science Policy Notices

Backgrounders

• B98-01: Compliance and Enforcement Policy Guideline
• B97-02: Harmonization of Environmental Data Requirements under NAFTA for Registration of Chemical Pesticides

Guidance Documents

• PMRA Guidance Document, Health Canada's Approach to Environmental Risk Assessment for Pest Control Products
• PMRA Guidance Document, Category C Application Guidance Document
• PMRA Guidance Document, Notification/Non-Notification
• PMRA Guidance Document, Value Guidelines for New Plant Protection Products and Label Amendments
• PMRA Guidance Document, Revisions to Specific Residue Chemistry Crop Groups – Update - July 2023
• PMRA Guidance Document, Good Laboratory Practice Requirements for Scientific Studies Supporting Pest Control Products
• Inspection of Confidential Test Data Supporting Pesticide Registration Decisions - Guidance Document
• PMRA Guidance Document, Registration of Non-Conventional Pest Control Products
• PMRA Guidance Document, Streamlined Category B Submissions
• PMRA Guidance Document, Tank Mix Labelling
• PMRA Guidance Document, Organizing and Formatting a Complete Submission for Pest Control Products
• PMRA Guidance Document, Updated Residue Chemistry Guidelines
• PMRA Guidance Document, Guidance for completing the Statement of Product Specification Form (Form 6003)
• PMRA Guidance Document, Guidance for User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion
• PMRA Guidance Document, Guidance and Requirements for Confidential Business Information
• PMRA Guidance Document, Value Assessment of Pest Control Products
• PMRA Guidance Document, First Aid Labelling Statements
• PMRA Guidance Document, Guidance for the Pest Control Products Incident Reporting Regulations
• PMRA Guidance Document, Administrative Changes in Contact Information for Registered Pest Control Products (Registrants and Formulators)
• PMRA Guidance Document, Revisions to Specific Residue Chemistry Crop Groups
• PMRA Guidance Document, Guidance for the Registration of Microbial Pest Control Agents and Products
• PMRA Guidance Document, Management of Submissions Policy
• PMRA Guidance Document, Approach to Special Reviews of Pesticides
• PMRA Guidance Document, A Framework for Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Pest Control Products
• PMRA Guidance Document, Structural Pest Control Products: Label Updates
• PMRA Guidance Document, Revisions to Data Requirements for Pesticide Products used on Companion Animals
• PMRA Guidance Document, Label Improvements for Spot-on Pesticides Used on Companion Animals
• Acceptable Claims for Articles Treated with Antimicrobial Preservatives
• Guidance for Preparing Safety Data Sheets According to the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals for Pest Control Products in Canada
• Guidance Document: Pest Control Products Fees and Charges Regulations
• Value Guidelines for New Personal Insect Repellent Products and Label Amendments
• Value Guidelines for New Antimicrobial Pest Control Products and Label Amendments
• Guidance for Developing Datasets for Conventional Pest Control Product Applications: Data Codes for Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10
• Guidance Document For the Sales Information Reporting Regulations and Reporting Forms
• Guidance for Waiving or Bridging of Mammalian Acute Toxicity Tests for Pesticides
• Toxic substances management policy : persistence and bioaccumulation criteria : final report of the Ad Hoc Science Group on Criteria

Label Process Series

• LPS2011-04: Guidance for Designing Peel-Back and Multi-Component Labels of Domestic Class Pest Control Products
• LPS2011-03: Designing Marketplace Labels of Domestic Class Pest Control Products
• LPS2011-02: Guidance to Improve Statements on Labels of Domestic Class Pest Control Products
• LPS2011-01: Pesticide Labelling Framework
• LPS2003-02: Label Process Changes Part 2: Guidance for Industry
• LPS2003-01: Label Process Changes Part 1: Overview

Regulatory Directives

• DIR2021-01: Compliance and enforcement policy for pesticides
• DIR2018-01: Policy on Cancellations and Amendments Following Re-evaluation and Special Review
  • Summary of Public Comments received on Regulatory Proposal PRO2016-04, Policy on Cancellations and Amendments Following Re-evaluation and Special Review
• DIR2017-03: Registration of Pesticides for Emergency Use: Revised Procedures
• DIR2017-02: Essential Oil-based Personal Insect Repellents (EOPIR)
• DIR2016-04: Management of Pesticides Re-evaluation Policy
• DIR2016-03: Regulatory Directive DIR2016-03, Final Decision Regarding Conditional Registrations under the Pest Control Products Regulations
• DIR2016-01: Guidelines for the Advertising of Pest Control Products
• DIR2013-04: Pesticide Resistance Management Labelling Based on Target Site/Mode of Action
• DIR2012-01: Guidelines for the Registration of Non Conventional Pest Control Product
  • Summary of Key Comments to PRO2010-06 and PMRA Response
• DIR2010-05: Revisions to the Residue Chemistry Crop Field Trial Requirements
• DIR2010-04: Guidelines for Reliance on Proprietary Data Under the Pest Control Products Regulations
• DIR2010-02: Label Improvements for Spot-on Pesticides Used for Flea and Tick Control on Companion Animals
• DIR2007-01: First Aid Labelling Statements
• DIR2006-04: Confidential Business Information Designation and Segregation Part 2: Previously Provided Test Data
• DIR2006-03: Confidential Business Information Designation and Segregation Part 1: Submission of Test Data
• DIR2006-02: Formulants Policy and Implementation Guidance Document
• DIR2006-01: Harmonization of Guidance for Terrestrial Field Studies of Pesticide Dissipation under the North American Free Trade Agreement
• DIR2005-02: Administrative Process for a Change in a Registrant's Name or a Change in Registrant for Pest Control Products
• DIR2005-01: Guidelines for Developing a Toxicological Database for Chemical Pest Control Products
• DIR2003-04: Efficacy Guidelines for Plant Protection Products
• DIR2003-03: Harmonization of environmental chemistry and fate data requirements for chemical pesticides under NAFTA
• DIR2003-02: Harmonization of Regulation of Pesticide Seed Treatment in Canada and the United States
• DIR2003-01: Organizing and Formatting a Complete Submission for Pest Control Products
• DIR2002-02: The PMRA Initiative for Reduced-Risk Pesticides
• DIR2002-01: Canadian Label Improvement Program for Pesticides Used on Companion Animals
• DIR2001-03: PMRA Re-evaluation Program
• DIR99-06: Voluntary Pesticide Resistance-Management Labelling Based on Target Site/Mode of Action
• DIR99-05: User Requested Minor Use Registration (URMUR)
• DIR99-04: Disposal Statements for Control Product Labels
• DIR99-03: The Pest Management Regulatory Agency's Strategy for Implementing the Toxic Substances Management Policy (TSMP)
• DIR99-02: Advertising Pest Control Products
• DIR99-01: Regulatory Status of Electrical Devices Intended for the Control of Flying Insect Pests
• DIR98-05: Chemical Pesticide Research Permit Guidelines
• DIR98-02: Residue Chemistry Guidelines
• DIR98-01: Good Laboratory Practice
• DIR97-01: Comprehensive Data Summaries
• DIR96-04: Aerial Application of Pesticides
• DIR96-02: Environment Label Claims and Advertising of Pest Control Products
• DIR96-01: Guidelines for Efficacy Assessment of Fungicides, Bactericides and Nematicides
• DIR95-05: Importation for Manufacturing and Export Program (IMEP)
• DIR94-06: Colour Standards for Seed Treatment Products and Labelling of Treated Seed
• DIR93-21: Initial Product/Private Label Registration Process
• DIR93-20: Master Product/Master Copy Registration Process
• DIR93-19: Registration of Products Sold in Response to an Invitation to Tender
• DIR93-18: Pre-Harvest Intervals for Grazing and Cutting for Hay of Immature Crops Treated with Pesticides
• DIR93-17: Assessment of the Economic Benefits of Pesticides
• DIR93-15: Registration Requirements for Adjuvant Products
• DIR93-14: Classification of Beans on Labels and Research Requirements
• DIR93-13: Chemigation
• DIR93-12: Pesticides for Aquatic Applications
• DIR93-11: Chlorofluorocarbons in Pesticides Products
• DIR93-10: Pesticides for Use in Forest and Woodlands Management
• DIR93-09: Plant Growth Regulators
• DIR93-06: Model Labels for Pool and Spa Products Not Eligible for Scheduling
• DIR93-05: Scheduling of Selected Pool and Spa Chemicals
• T-1-255: Guidelines for Determining Environmental Chemistry and Fate of Pesticides
• T-1-245: Guidelines for Developing a Pesticide Toxicology Data Base
• T-1-242: Rates and Labelling Requirements for Metered Pyrethrin Products
• T-1-215: Efficacy Data for Antimicrobial Products

Science Policy Notices

• SPN2020-01: Policy on the List of Pest Control Product Formulants and Contaminants of Health or Environmental Concern
• SPN2018-02: Cumulative Health Risk Assessment Framework
• SPN2018-01: Guidance on Streamlined Residue Chemistry Data Requirements for Seed Treatment Uses and Potato Seed-Piece Applications
• SPN2017-03: Acute Dermal Toxicity Study Waiver
• SPN2017-02: Joint Canada/United States Field Trial Requirements
• SPN2016-02: Dermal Absorption: Position Papers from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Technical Working Group (TWA)
• SPN2016-01: Restricted Use of Human Studies with Pesticides for Regulatory Purposes
• SPN2014-02: Estimating Dislodgeable Foliar Residues and Turf Transferrable Residues in Occupational and Residential Postapplication Exposure Assessments
• SPN2014-01: General Exposure Factor Inputs for Dietary, Occupational, and Residential Exposure Assessments
• SPN2008-01: The Application of Uncertainty Factors and the PCPA Factor in the Human Health Risk Assessment of Pesticides
• SPN2004-01: Estimating the Water Component of a Dietary Exposure Assessment
• SPN2003-05: Guidance for Refining Anticipated Residue Estimates for use in Acute Dietary Probabilistic Risk Assessment
• SPN2003-04: General Principles for Performing Aggregate Exposure and Risk Assessments
• SPN2003-03: Assessing Exposure from Pesticides in Food A User's Guide
• SPN2003-02: Assigning Values to Nondetected/Nonquantified Pesticide Residues in Food
• SPN2003-01: Choosing a Percentile of Acute Dietary Exposure as a Threshold of Concern
• SPN2002-01: Children's Health Priorities within the Pest Management Regulatory Agency
• SPN2001-01: Guidance for Identifying Pesticides that have a Common Mechanism of Toxicity for Human Health Risk Assessment