Current Health Canada approaches to mitigating the environmental impacts of pesticide use can be challenging for growers to implement. A consultative approach is being used to develop a renewed and more effective habitat protection policy. The PMRA's mandate includes protecting the environment from unintended effects of pesticide use. Where necessary, mitigation measures, including no-spray buffer zones, are specified on product labels to reduce pesticide exposure in non-target habitats to acceptable levels.  Feedback from stakeholders indicates that the current approach can be logistically difficult to implement and enforce, can have an economic impact for producers and can sometimes conflict with other habitat protection initiatives. To address these issues, Health Canada is working with stakeholders to develop an improved habitat protection policy that will more effectively balance environmental protection with agricultural production.

Protection of habitat from agricultural pesticide use that works for farmers

248th National Meeting (2014)

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