. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CAN/327 
20 May 2008  
 (08-2329) 
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):  Metalaxyl  (ICS: 65.020, 65.100, 67.080) 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable :  All 
trading partners 
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Proposed Maximum 
Residue Limit:  Metalaxyl (PMRL2008-16) (ava ilable in English and French, 6 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 metalaxyl, including 
metabolites that can be converted to the 2,6-dimethylaniline moiety, which have been 
proposed by the PMRA since the PCPA came into force on 28 June 2006.  These MRLs 
complete the leafy greens, except Brassi ca commodities (Crop Subgroup 4A) for which 
MRLs of 5.0 ppm on lettuce and 10 ppm on spin ach (covering New Zealand spinach, spinach 
and vine spinach) are currently established.  Co nsultation is being initiated in advance of Bill 
C-28 coming into force so that the MRLs listed in this document can be legally established as soon as possible after the FDA is amended. 
MRL (ppm
) Raw Agricultural Commodity (RAC) and/or Processed Commodity  
5.0 ppm  Amaranth, arugula, corn salad, dandelion leaves, dock, edible leaved 
chrysanthemum, endives, fresh chervil leaves, fresh parsley leaves, garden cress, garden purslane, garland chrysanthemum, head lettuce*, leaf lettuce*, orach leaves, radicchio, up land cress, winter purslane 
*The established 5.0 ppm MRL for "lettuce" is to be replaced by sepa rate entries for "head 
lettuce" and "leaf lettuce". G/SPS/N/CAN/327 
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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. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[ X ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [   ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly id entify deviations:  Codex has established a lower MRL of 2.0 ppm 
on head lettuce but has not es tablished MRLs on any other Crop Subgroup 4A commodities. 
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   Pest Management 
Regulatory Agency (PMRA) web site:  http://www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/ english/pubs/pmrl-e.html , 
PMRL2008-16, posted:  08 May 2008 (ava ilable 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:  22 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: 
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/pmrl2008-16-eng.pdf  (English) 
http://www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/franca is/pdf/pmrl/pmrl2008-16-fra.pdf  (French)