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G/SPS/N/CAN/549 
12 July 2011  
 (11-3435) 
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 Ag ency (PMRA), Health Canada 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Pesticide lambda-cyhalothrin in or on various food commodities (ICS Codes:  
65.020, 65.100, 67.060, 67.080, 67.140) 
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 Residue Limit (PMRL):  Lambda-
Cyhalothrin (PMRL2011-27)  Language(s):  English and French  Number of pages:  6 
and 7 
6. Description of content:  The objective of the notified document PMRL2011-27 is to 
consult on the listed import maximum residue li mits (MRLs) for lambda-cyhalothrin that 
have been proposed by Health Canada's P est Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA).  
MRL (ppm) Raw Agricultural Commodity (RAC) and/or Processed Commodity 
2.0  Tea (dried leaves) 1.0  Rice, wild rice 
0.5  Stone fruits (Crop Group 12-09), olives 
0.4  Head and stem Brassica (Crop Subgroup 5A, except broccoli and 
cabbages) 
0.3  Pome fruits (Crop Group 11-09) 0.2  Fruiting vegetables (Crop Group 8-09), avocadoes, barley bran, grapes, 
oranges, rye bran, Satsuma mandarins, sorghum, wheat bran 
0.05  Cucurbit vegetables (Crop Group 9), tree nuts (Crop Group 14), cereal 
grains (Crop Group 15; except corn, rice, sorghum and wild rice), peanuts, pistachios, sugarcane, undelinted cotton seeds 
0.02  Tuberous and corm vegetables (Crop Subgroup 1C) G/SPS/N/CAN/549 
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  MRLs are proposed for each commodity in cluded in the listed crop groupings in 
accordance with the Residue Chemistry Crop Gr oups webpage in the Pesticides and Pest 
Management section of Hea lth Canada's website.  
Note that a number of the MRLs are proposed  to revise currently established MRLs as 
specified in PMRL2011-27. 
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 stan dard?  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:  The following table compares lambda-cyhalothrin MRLs 
proposed in Canada for which corresponding cy halothrin Codex MRLs are established.  
The differing MRLs are highlighted in bold fo nt.  Codex MRLs have not been established 
for the remaining commodities included under this action. 
Food Commodity  Canadian MRL Codex MRL 
 (ppm) (ppm) Pome fruits (Crop Group 11-09) 0.3 0.2 Undelinted cotton seeds and 0.05 0.02 
cotton seed oil  
Tuberous and corm vegetables 0.02 0.02 
(Crop Subgroup 1C)   (Potatoes only) 
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Health 
Canada website:  http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/part/consultations/index-eng.php , 
PMRL2011-27, posted 30 June 2011 (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 documen t 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    G/SPS/N/CAN/549 
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  12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  13 September 2011 
Agency or authority designated to handl e 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 Notification  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/_pmrl2011-27/index-eng.php  
(English) 
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/par t/consultations/_pmrl2011-27/index-fra.php   
(French)