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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/CAN/137
13 June 2002
(02-3283)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English/
French
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   CANADA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Department of Health
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where
applicable):  Tebufenozide (ICS: 65.100)
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Proposed Amendment to
the Food and Drug Regulations ( 1296- Tebufenozide) (pages 1704-1707)
6. Description of content:  The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) of Health
Canada has recently approved an application to amend the registration of tebufenozide in
order to allow its use for the control of blackheaded fireworm, cutworms, and fruitworm on
cranberries, the control of Looper on lettuce and tomatoes, and the control of codling moth,
oblique-banded leafroller and three-lined leafroller on pears.  This proposed regulatoryamendment would establish MRLs for residues of tebufenozide resulting from this use in
cranberries, dried cranberries, lettuce, pears and tomatoes, in order to permit the sale of
food containing these residues.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [ X ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [ X ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  The US Environmental Protection Agency has
established a tolerance of 1.0 ppm for tebufenozide on cranberries.  A separate tolerance on
dried cranberries has not been established by the United States.  The proposed Canadian
MRL of 1.0 ppm on cranberries is in compliance with the US tolerance.
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Canada Gazette,
Part I, 1 June 2002 (Available in English and French)
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Not stated.
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  Not stated.G/SPS/N/CAN/137
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12. Final date for comments:  14 August 2002
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 notification authority,  [ X ]  National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:  The electronic
version of the regulatory text can be downloaded at:  http://canada.gc.ca/gazette/part1/pdf/g1-
13622.pdf