Minor Use Program: Provincial

and National Perspectives Ontario Pest Management Conference

November 6, 2008

J. ChaputProvincial Minor Use Coordinator

** Presentation Outline **

• Who does what? PMRA, AAFC-PMC, OMAFRA, MOE, IR-4, UN, Registrants

• Brief overview of minor use process• Notable 2008 minor use registrations• Emergency use registrations• Active minor use projects• Minor use prioritization process• Current minor use issues• Your role in minor use• Questions/Discussion

Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA)

• Agency within Health Canada• Operates under the federal Pest Control Products

Act• PMRA Mission: To protect human health and the

environment by minimizing the risks associated with pest control products in an open and transparent manner, while enabling access to pest management tools

• Review in-depth scientific data which supports the safety and ‘value’ of crop protection products

• Respond to emergency use situations• Re-evaluate old chemistries and facilitate

transitions to new technology where possible

Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada – Pest Management Centre (AAFC-PMC)

• Coordinates and hosts Canada’s annual, national, minor use priority-setting workshop (March 23 - 25, 2009)

• For the top selected projects, AAFC-PMC conducts data-mining, field efficacy and/or residue trials, prepares reports and makes minor use submissions to PMRA

• AAFC-PMC also conducts minor use research on priorities identified without adequate solutions

• Collaborates with US IR-4 program to conduct joint minor use projects for common crop / pest problems

Provincial Ministries of Agriculture (i.e. OMAFRA, MAPAQ, BCMAL, Sask. Ag., etc.)

• Facilitate a grower-driven process to identify and prioritize minor use needs on all crops

• Submit provincial priorities to AAFC-PMC to be part of Canadian national minor use needs list

• Collaborate with one another to identify common needs• Submit minor use projects for regional issues and for

priorities not addressed at the national level• Respond to emergency use situations• Host annual PMRA summer tour to visit specialty crop

producers• Provincial minor use coordinator acts as liaison between

province and federal government, US IR-4, registrants, grower/processor organizations, Australian and UK minor use programs

Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE)

• Regulates the sale, use, transportation, storage and disposal of federally registered pesticides

• Classifies federally registered pesticides for sale, storage and use in Ontario

• Issuance of pesticide applicator, operator and vendor licenses

• Monitors compliance and enforces the regulatione.g. water monitoring for pesticide residues

• Review documentation and rationale for emergency use requests; MOE support is required

US IR-4 Program

• Coordinates and hosts USA’s annual, national, minor use priority-setting workshop (September 2008)

• For the top selected projects, IR-4 conducts data-mining, residue trials, prepares reports and makes minor use submissions to EPA

• Collaborates with AAFC-PMC, Australian minor use programs to conduct joint minor use projects for common crop / pest problems

UN FAO• Hosted the 1st ever Global Minor Use Summit in

Rome in December 2007.• Develop a global minor use web portal

– http://ir4.rutgers.edu/GMUS/GMUSportal2.htm

• Capacity building in the areas of biopesticide/reduced risk products, multi-lateral reviews, data generation– including Africa, Asia, South America

• Establish a CODEX working group on specialty crops and minor uses

• Establish international collaborations and pilot projects– concept of global residue zones

• 2nd Global Minor Use Summit planned for 2010

Registrants (Crop Protection Product Companies)

• Help to identify solutions to minor use crop/pest priorities

• Contribute data from global sources in support of minor use submissions

• Introduce new crop protection products to Canada• Encouraged to introduce new products as joint

reviews to NAFTA, OECD and beyond• Encouraged to introduce new products with as

many specialty crops included on the first label• Continue to work with regulatory agencies on

harmonization of data requirements• Support for emergency use registrations

The Minor Use Process

• Minor use submissions to PMRA can come from only 3 sources:– AAFC-PMC “A” priorities– Provincial sponsor via the Provincial Minor Use

Coordinator– Registrant submissions

• Projects selected as ‘A’ priorities in year 200X are conducted in year 200X + 1

• Typically for minor uses that require efficacy and/or residue data, the timeframe is 3 years (same as IR-4)

• Some minor uses can be achieved in 1 year• Priorities chosen are a grower-driven process• Registrant support is critical to success

Collaboration!!• Minor use program would not succeed without it!• All stakeholders must actively participate

– Growers and producers of food and ornamental crops

– Processors, seed companies– Provincial crop/discipline specialists, minor

use coordinators– Registrants– Researchers (gov’t and private)– PMRA, AAFC-PMC– MOE

Notable URMULE Registrations 2008

• Poast and Frontier herbicides – weeds on peanuts• Callisto herbicide – weeds on cranberries• Sulphur fungicide/ Bioprotec bioinsecticide –

brown rot and gypsy moth on sea buckthorn• Allegro fungicide – clubroot on Brassicas• Allegro fungicide – diseases on crop subgroup 13-

07B (bushberries)• Allegro fungicide – white mold on succulent beans• Ranman fungicide - Pythium on carrots• Previcur – Pythium on GH vegetables• Trophy A + B – weeds on winter wheat in Ontario

NEW crop groups adopted by EPA and PMRA

• Crop group 3-07: Bulb vegetables– Expanded from 7 to 26 commodities– Subgroups 3-07A and 3-07B

• Crop group 13-07: Berries– Expanded from 10 to 46 commodities– Subgroups 13-07A, 13-07B, 13-07C, 13-07D,

13-07E, 13-07F, 13-07G, 13-07H• Crop group 21: Edible fungi

– Created new group to represent white button mushrooms and 19 other edible mushrooms

Emergency Use Registrations 2008

• Previcur – Pythium on GH peppers• Pristine & Switch – powdery mildew on GH cucumbers• Treeazin – emerald ash borer on ash trees• Senator – Rhizoctonia on GH tobacco seedlings• Command – weeds on cucumbers, melons, pumpkins,

squash• Intercept – swede midge on Brassica transplants• Tattoo C – downy mildew on all cucurbits• 1-mcp - ethylene management on stored pears• Carzol – thrips on dry bulb onions• Tilt – Cercospora leaf spot on sugarbeets• GF-120 – apple maggot on organic apples• Maestro – Phytophthora on ginseng• Scholar – white mold on carrots going to storage• Coragen – corn earworm on sweet corn• Tanos & Manzate – downy mildew on GH cucumbers• Apivar – Varroa mites on honeybees• Rampart – PH diseases on stored potatoes

Other Registrations 2008

• Prestop (Gliocladium catenulatum) biofungicide• Velocity (bispyribac-sodium) herbicide• Actinovate (Streptomyces lydicus) biofungicide• Coragen/Altacor (chlorantraniliprole) insecticide• Delegate/Radiant (spinetoram) insecticide• Instrata (fludioxinil) fungicide• Movento (spirotetramat) insecticide• Safer’s Slug Bait (ferric Na) molluscidide• Revus (mandipropamid) fungicide

Active Minor Use Projects

• Approximately 350 active URMULE projects underway currently

• Approximately 22% of these are joint projects with the US IR-4 program

• Approximately 16% are minor uses for field crops• Approximately 40% are minor uses for field

vegetables• Approximately 10% are minor uses for greenhouse

vegetables• Approximately 22% are minor uses for fruit crops• Approximately 11% are minor uses for

ornamentals and turf

Setting Minor Use Priorities

• Each province consults with growers, processors, researchers and extension personnel every fall to review and establish minor use priorities

• These are submitted to AAFC-PMC in January of each year to be collated into a Canadian national minor use priority list

• National Minor Use Priority-Setting meeting is held in March of each year bringing together all stakeholders to determine top priorities

Setting Minor Use Priorities - Ontario

• Research and services committees and technical working groups meet in fall 2008 to review and prioritize needs

• Fresh and processing vegetable working group meet in February to review all vegetable minor use priorities

• Ontario and Quebec vegetable working group will compare priorities and identify areas of common interest

Setting Minor Use Priorities – National, International

• Some national commodity groups organize Canada-wide conference calls to determine common national priorities – GH vegetables, berries, mushrooms, turf and ornamentals, apples

• AAFC-PMC and Provinces also compare our priorities with US IR-4 priorities prior to the US Food-Use Workshops held in September every year

• We now also share and compare our priorities with the UK and Australia

Current and On-going Minor Use Issues

• The impact of workload at PMRA; pre-submission and in-submission delays

• The need for a review of program operations at AAFC-PMC• The need for a new URMUR program and fee structure• The need for program 914 to address the “technology

gap”• The long-standing issue of non-harmonized data

requirements i.e. occupational exposure, different safety factors

• The impact of formulation changes, tank-mix regulations• The impact of re-evaluation decisions• The implementation of recommendations from the Rome

Minor Use Summit

Technology Gap: Active Ingredients Not Registered in Canada but available to US

producers• fipronil• sulfentrazone (expect 2008)• bifenthrin (expect 2011)• flumioxazin (expect 2008)• Beauvaria bassiana (expect 2008)• buprofezin (expect 2009)• cinnamaldehyde• harpin protein• esfenvalerate• fenpropathrin• flonicamid (expect 2011)• indoxacarb• quinoxyfen (expect 2011)• triflumizole• azadirachtin (expect 2009)• various essential oils

• fenpyroximate• hexythiazox• etoxazole• flutolanil• halosulfuron• forchlorfenuron• cyfluthrin• dinotefuran• acibenzolar (expect 2010)• Bacillus pumilis• diallyl disulphide (expect 2009)• fosthiazate• Muscador albus• ethoprop• fluopicolide (expect 2012)• Chenopodium ambrosioides• Reynoutria sachalinensis

Technology Gap: Registered Reduced Risk Uses

• > 2,400 crop or cropgroup pesticide uses• 52 active ingredients

• < 1,200 crop or cropgroup pesticide uses• 33 active ingredients

Technology Gap: Registered Biopesticides

> 180 active ingredients

< 45 active ingredients

How can you contribute to our continued success?

• Participate in the minor use priority setting process

• Encourage your colleagues (growers, processors, crop consultants, researchers, registrants, seed companies, etc.) to participate

• Ensure your provincial organizations are represented at the national minor use meetings

• When requested, provide detailed and accurate responses to emergency use situations, data requests and pesticide use surveys

• Continue to emphasize the need for a more harmonized crop protection product regulatory system

THANK YOU

Discussion…Questions…