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Question 1

What is PMRA?

Answer 1

Pest management regulatory act
Control pesticides used in Canada

Question 2

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Answer 2

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Question 3

What is the primary mandate and the 4 secondary mandates of the PMRA?

Answer 3

primary: prevent unacceptable risks to people and environment from the use of pest control products

secondary:
1. Sustainable development
2.encourage development and use of lower risk products
3. minimize health and environmental risks
4. increase public awareness

Question 4

before a pesticide is registered, what 3 things does it have to be tested for?

Answer 4

risk to humans
risk to environment
pesticide efficacy

Question 5

how often is a pesticide on the market reviewed?

Answer 5

every 15 years

Question 6

what is the PCPA? what does it establish?

Answer 6

The pest control products act.
It’s what gives the PMRA authority

establish maximum residue limits (MRL) for each pesticide for each food

Question 7

what were 3 improvements of PCPA 2002?

Answer 7

1. strengthen protection by: accounting for sensitive populations, aggregate exposure (numerous routes), cumulative effects (numerous chemicals), MSDS,
2. registration more transparent: public consultation and test data
3. require incident reporting