Under the authority of the Pest Control Products Act, Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) granted continued registration of products containing acephate for sale and use in Canada.

Before registering a pesticide for food use in Canada or allowing for continued registration, the PMRA must determine the quantity of residues that are likely to remain in or on the food when the pesticide is used according to label directions and that such residues will not be a concern to human health. This quantity is then legally established as a maximum residue limits (MRL). An MRL applies to the identified raw agricultural food commodity as well as to any processed food product that contains it, except where separate MRLs are specified for the raw agricultural commodity and a processed product made from it.

On August 18, PMRA revised the maximum residue limits for Acephate and Methamidophos in some foods, involving beans, broccoli, corn, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, milk, potatoes, tomatoes, etc. The deadline for feedback is November 1, 2020.

The proposed MRL revisions are indicated in the table.

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