G/SPS/N/CAN/714  
 
1 August 2013  
(13-4141)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English/French  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member: CANADA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible: Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), Health Canada 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; IC S numbers should be provided in 
addition, where applicable): Pesticide fluopyram in or on various commodities 
(ICS Codes: 65.020, 65.100, 67.040) 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document: Proposed Maximum Resi due Limit: Fluopyram 
(PMRL2013-52)  Language(s): English and French  Number of pages: 9 
6. Description of content: The objective of the notified document PMRL2013-52 is to 
consult on the listed domestic and import maximum residue limits (MRLs) for fluopyram (in crop commodities) and for fluopyram and the metabolite fluopyram-benzamide (in 
livestock commodities) that have been propos ed by Health Canada's Pest Management 
Regulatory Agency (PMRA). 
MRL (ppm) Raw Agricultural Commodity (RAC) and/or Processed Commodity 
2.0 Grapes 
1.8 Canola 1.5 Cereal grains, except rice (Crop Group 15, except rice); strawberries 
1.0 Bananas; watermelon 
0.4 Dry chickpeas; dry lentils; meat byproducts of cattle, goats, horses and 
sheep 
0.3 Apples 
0.1 Meat by-products of poultry; sugar beet roots; soybeans 
0.09 Dried beans 0.06 Eggs; Milk 
0.05 Tree nuts (Crop Group 14); fat and meat of cattle, goats, horses and 
sheep; pistachios 
0.03 Meat by-products of hogs; fat and meat of poultry 
0.02 Tuberous and corm vegetables (Crop Subgroup 1C); fat and meat of 
hogs; peanuts 
0.01 Undelinted cotton seeds 
ppm = parts per million 
MRLs are proposed for each commodity included in the listed crop groupings in 
accordance with the Residue Chemistry Crop Groups  webpage (" http://www.hc-
sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/part/protect-prot eger/food-nourriture/rccg-gcpcr-eng.php ") in the 
Pesticides and Pest Management section of Health Canada's website. G/SPS/N/CAN/714 
 
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  7. Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international st andard? If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[ ] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
[ ] Yes   [X] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard: Canadian MRLs differ from th e Codex MRLs established for 
fluopyram in or on various commodities. The table below compares the MRLs proposed 
for fluopyram in Canada with the corresponding established Codex MRLs. 
 Food Commodity Canadian MRL Codex MRL 
 (ppm) (ppm) 
Canola 1.8 Not established 
Crop Group 15, except rice 1.5 Not established 
(Cereal grains, except rice) 
Cherries 1.5 Not established 
Strawberries 1.5 Not established Bananas 1.0 Not established 
Watermelon 1.0 Not established 
Dry chickpeas, dry lentils 0.4 Not established Apples 0.3 Not established 
Sugar beet roots 0.1 Not established 
Soybeans 0.1 Not established Dried beans 0.09 Not established Crop Group 14 (Tree Nuts), 0.05 Not established 
pistachios 
Crop Subgroup 1C (Tuberous and 0.02 Not established 
corm vegetables) 
Peanuts 0.02 Not established 
Undelinted cotton seeds 0.01 Not established 
Fat and meat of cattle, goats, 0.05 0.1 (meat from 
horses and sheep  mammals other than 
Meat by-products of cattle, 0.4 marine mammals); goats, horses and sheep  0.7 (edible offal, Fat and meat of hogs 0.02 mammalian) 
Meat by-products of hogs 0.03 
Fat and meat of poultry 0.03 Not established Meat by-products of poultry 0.1 Not established 
Eggs 0.06 Not established 
Milk 0.06 0.07 G/SPS/N/CAN/714 
 
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  9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available: 
Health Canada website: " http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pe st/part/consultations/index-
eng.php ", PMRL2013-52, posted: 25 July 2013 (available in English and French) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : Normally within four to five months from 
the posting of the Proposed MRL document on the Health Canada website. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :   
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : On the date the measure is adopted. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 8 October 2013 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:   
13. Texts available from: [ ] National Notifi cation Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
The electronic version of the regulatory text can be downloaded at:  
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/part/ consultations/_pmrl2013-52/index-eng.php  
(English) 
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/part/ consultations/_pmrl2013-52/index-fra.php  
(French)