Pesticide Risk Reduction Program

The Pesticide Risk Reduction Program, a joint initiative of AAFC and Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency, works to reduce the risks from pesticides used in the agriculture and agri-food industry. These include risks to human health, risks to biodiversity resulting from impacts on non-target organisms, and risks to air, water and soil.

The Pesticide Risk Reduction Program creates a framework through which growers develop and implement pesticide risk reduction strategies. It focuses on selected crops and priority pest management issues that are determined through stakeholder consultations at a national level.

The Program provides funding and regulatory support for the implementation of developed strategies. Success of the strategies is measured and the current pest management situation for individual crops is updated in the Crop Profile and Issues section.

Contact Information

For more information about the Pest Management Centre Pesticide Risk Reduction Program, please contact:

Email: Leslie Cass (leslie.cass@agr.gc.ca)
Tel: 613-694-2438