G/SPS/N/CAN/1517/Add.1  
18 September 2023  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English/French  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 15 September 2023, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of Canada . 
 
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Established Maximum Residue Limits: Ethalfluralin  
The proposed maximum residue limit (PMRL) document for ethalfluralin notified in 
G/SPS/N/CAN/1517 (dated 3 July 2023) was adopted 10 September 2023. The proposed MRLs were 
established via entry into the Maximum Residue Limits Database and are provided directly below:  
MRL (ppm)1  Raw Agricultural Commodity (RAC) and/or Processed Commodity  
0.05  Dry common beans ( Phaseolus  spp.)2 including: dry black beans, dry cranberry beans, 
dry beans, dry field beans, dry French beans, dry garden beans, dry Great Northern 
beans, dry g reen beans, dry lima beans, dry pink beans, dry pinto beans, dry red 
beans, dry scarlet runner beans, dry tepary beans, and dry yellow beans  
1ppm = parts per million  
2Dry kidney beans and dry navy beans are excluded from this action as an MRL of 0.05 ppm i s already established 
for these commodities . 
MRLs established in Canada may be found using Health Canada's Maximum Residue Limit Database  
(https://pest -control.canada.ca/pesticide -registry/en/mrl -search.html ) on the Maximum residue 
limits, human health, and food safety webpage (https://www.canada.ca/en/health -
canada/servic es/consumer -product -safety/pesticides -pest-management/public/protecting -your-
health -environment/pesticides -food/maximum -residue -limits -pesticides.html ).  
The database allows users to search for pesticides or for food comm odities.  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  G/SPS/N/CAN/1517/Add.1  
 
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  Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the addendum ma y vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable.  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
 
Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
The specified MRLs have b een provided above and are also accessible from the MRL webpages as 
indicated below:  
 
https://www.canada.ca/en/health -canada/services/consumer -product -safety/pesticides -pest-
management/public/protecting -your-health -environment/pesticides -food/maximum -residue -limits -
pesticides.html  (English)  
 
https://www.canada.ca/fr/sante -canada/services/securite -produits -consommation/pesticides -lutte-
antiparasitaire/public/proteger -votre-sante -environnement/pesticides -aliments/limites -maximales -
residus -pesticides.html  (Frenc h) 
 
or requested from:  
 
Canada's Notification Authority and Enquiry Point  
Technical Barriers and Regulations Division  
Global Affairs Canada  
111 Sussex Drive  
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2  
Canada  
Tel: +(343) 203 4273  
Fax: +(613) 943 0346  
E-mail: enquirypoint@international.gc.ca  
 
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