Pesticides
Pesticides are crop protection products that include herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, rodenticides, and plant growth regulators. These products help farmers, foresters, gardeners, homeowners and turf specialists control weeds, diseases, insects and other pests.
Canada's stringent regulatory system ensures pesticides pose no unacceptable risk to human health and the environment when label directions are followed.
Pesticides are one of the most intensely researched and tested chemicals in Canada. Through Health Canadaýs Pest Management Regulatory Agency, pesticides undergo comprehensive reviews before they are made available for sale. A pesticide can only be sold if there is ýreasonable certainty that no harm to human health, future generations or the environment will result when the pesticide is used as directedý. Pesticides available today are more targeted, reduced in risk and applied in more effective ways then those first previously available to ensure that their full benefit is derived while reducing the risk to environment and human health.
Pesticides help to limit the environmental and economic damage that can be caused by insects, weeds and plant diseases. In Canada, our industry is committed to ongoing evolution of our industry products to allow farmers to produce more food on less land, and minimizing the need for farms to encroach upon fragile, erosion-prone soils, forests, or wetlands.
Whether it is an insecticide for controlling termites or fleas in your home, an herbicide for ridding your lawn of undesirable weeds or a fungicide that keeps plants alive during a disease outbreak, pesticides play a key role in controlling or eliminating pests that threaten our food supply, public health and the environment.
Pesticide Safety Handbook (PDF 219K)
A complete guide for growers about safe handling of pesticides.
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