WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CAN/321 
6 May 2008  
 (08-2145) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English/ 
 French 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  CANADA   
If applicable, name of local government involved:     
2. Agency responsible:  Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), Health Canada 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numb er(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable):  Spinetoram (ICS:  65.020, 65.100, 67.060, 67.080, 67.100, 67.120) 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable :  Not 
stated. 
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Proposed Maximum 
Residue Limit:  Spinetoram (PMRL2008-11) (ava ilable in English, 12 pages;  and French, 
14 pages) 
6. Description of content:  Currently, maximum residue limits (MRLs) are legally established 
in Canada under the Food and Drug Regulations  (FDR) after consultation through the 
Canada Gazette .  Amendments to the Food and Drugs Act  (FDA) via Bill C-28, anticipated 
to come into force in 2008, will allow pestic ide MRLs to be legally  established under the Pest 
Control Products Act (PCPA) without their having to be  adopted by regulation under the 
FDA.  
The objective of this document is to consult on the listed MRLs for spinetoram, including the 
N-demethyl-175-J and N-formyl-175-J metabolites , which have been proposed by the PMRA 
since the PCPA came into force on 28 June 2006.  Consultation is being initiated in advance 
of Bill C-28 coming into force so that the MRL listed in this document can be legally 
established as soon as possibl e after the FDA is amended. 
Commodities included in each of the identif ied crop groups/subgroups are listed in the 
corresponding Proposed MRL document (PMRL2008-11). 
MRL (ppm)  Raw Agricultural Commodity (RAC) and/or Processed Commodity  
7.0  Leafy Brassica  greens (Crop Subgroup 5B), leafy vegetables (Crop Group 
4), leaves of root and tube r vegetables (Crop Group 2) 
3.0  Citrus oil 2.0  Head and stem Brassica  vegetables (Crop Subgroup 5A) 
1.0  Grape juice 
0.7  Low growing berries subgroup (Crop Subgroup 13-07G; except lowbush 
blueberries, cra nberries), raisins G/SPS/N/CAN/321 
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   0.5  Caneberries (Crop Subgroup 13-07 A), bushberries (Crop Subgroup 13-
07B; except highbush cranberries, lingonberries) 
0.4  Small fruit vine climbing subgr oup except fuzzy kiwifruit (Crop Subgroup 
13-07F; except gooseberries) 
0.3  Cucurbit vegetables (Crop Group 9), citrus fruits (Crop Group 10), edible-
podded legume vegetabl es (Crop Subgroup 6A) 
0.2  Fruiting vegetables (Crop Group 8) , stone fruits (Crop Group 12), okra 
0.1  Pome fruits (Crop Group 11), root vegetables (Crop Subgroup 1A), barley, 
oats, rye, wheat 
0.04  Tuberous and corm vegetables (C rop Subgroup 1C), succulent shelled pea 
and bean (Crop Subgroup 6B), dried shelled pea and bean (Crop Subgroup 
6C), asparagus, corn (field, sweet,  pop), cranberries, dry soybeans 
7.5  Milk, fat 5.5  Fat of cattle, goats, horses and sheep 
0.85  Liver of cattle, goats, horses and sheep 
0.6  Meat by-products (except liver)  of cattle, goats , horses and sheep 
0.3  Milk 0.2  Meat of cattle, goats, horses and sheep 
0.04  Eggs; fat, meat and meat  by-products of hogs and poultry  
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. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:    
9. Relevant documents and langu age(s) in which these are available:    
Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) web site:  
http://www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/ english/pubs/pmrl-e.html , PMRL2008-11,  
posted:  28 April 2008 (available in English and French) 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Not stated. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  On the date the measure is adopted. 
12. Final date for comments:  12 July 2008 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or  address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  G/SPS/N/CAN/321 
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  13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notifica tion authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: 
The electronic version of the regulat ory text can be downloaded at:  
http://www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/engl ish/pdf/pmrl/pmrl2008-11-eng.pdf   (English) 
http://www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/franca is/pdf/pmrl/pmrl2008-11-fra.pdf   (French)