Health Canada’s Pest Management Review Board has announced details about its proposal to ban two neonicitinoids for outdoor farm use by 2021.
First, it is granting a 90-day period of consultations to receive views from the public about its proposals.
Second, it is allowing greenhouse uses to continue.
Bayer sells clothianidin as insecticides and seed treatments under brand names Poncho, Prosper, Titan and Sepresto.
Nufarm calls it NipsIt.
Syngenta sells thiamethoxam as Cruiser and Helix.
Health Canada said it found imidacloprid being measured at levels harmful to certain aquatic insect populations such as mayflies and midges — a “critical food source” for fish, birds and other animals.
That prompted it to decide on a ban by 2021.
However, the agency deemed the risks to aquatic invertebrates from greenhouse uses of thiamethoxam to be “acceptable” and plans to allow the chemical’s continued registration for greenhouse uses, “provided wastewater mitigation instructions on product labels are followed.”
