On February 24, 2017, CPDA-Canada submitted comments to Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) in response to the Agency’s December 30, 2016 consultation document containing proposed revisions to the Agreement for Data Protection under Section 66 of the Pest Control Products Act (PCPA) formerly known as the Ministerial Agreement. In its comments, CPDA-Canada expressed its disappointment with the changes proposed by PMRA emphasizing that the Agency “still refuses to implement an equitable data compensation and regulatory mechanism that balances
CPDA-Canada is an incorporated subsidiary in Canada of the Council of Producers & Distributors of Agrotechnology based in Washington, DC, USA. CPDA-Canada was created in 2013 in response to growing interest from CPDA members looking to establish a firm foothold in the Canadian agrotechnology market that would provide growers greater access to effective and competitively priced generic pesticide products and tank-mix adjuvants. CPDA-Canada is the only legally incorporated trade association in Canada representing the interests of manufacturers, formulators, and distributors of