. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CAN/323 
20 May 2008  
 (08-2318) 
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):  Sethoxydim (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:  Sethoxydim  (PMRL2008-12) (ava ilable in English, 4 pages;  and French, 
5 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 pesticide 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 MRL for sethoxydim, and 
metabolites containing the cyclohexen-2-one mo iety, which has 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. 
MRL (ppm)  Raw Agricultural Commodity (RAC) and/or Processed Commodity  
12.5  ppm Peanuts 
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:    G/SPS/N/CAN/323 
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  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
, 
PMRL2008-12, posted:  07 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:  21 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/pmrl2008-12-eng.pdf  (English) 
http://www.pmra-arla.gc.ca/franca is/pdf/pmrl/pmrl2008-12-fra.pdf  (French)