Inventory of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Environmental and Occupational Health Data
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Inventory of Data Sources

Pesticide Products Information System (PEPSIS) (Ontario)

Contacts
Doug Mewett
Executive Secretary
Ontario Pesticides Advisory Committee (OPAC)
2300 Yonge Street, Suite 1023
Toronto, ON
M4P 1E4
Tel: (416) 314-9235
E-mail: Doug.Mewett@oeb.gov.on.ca

Mieke Bradshaw
Secretary
[Address same as above]
E-mail: mieke.bradshaw@oeb.gov.on.ca

Database URL
Pesticide Products Information System
www.opac.gov.on.ca

Organization Maintaining the Database
Ontario Pesticides Advisory Committee (OPAC)

Purpose of Database
To provide a listing of pesticides classified for use in Ontario.

Content
Data on pesticides for domestic, industrial, and farm use in Ontario. Data types: toxicological and chemical. Data elements: Numerical listing of pesticide products classified for sale and use in Ontario. There are approximately 4,000 records in the database. Levels of data: group-level or aggregate data; no personal nominal data.

Year Database Established
1998

Coverage Period
1998 to 2003

Data Updates
Weekly

Data Providers
The Ontario Pesticides Advisory Committee collects the data; the primary provider and original source of the data is the pesticides industry.

Data Availability
The pesticides industry and the Ontario provincial government are the main users of the information in the database. Any Internet subscriber also has direct access to the data (website:www.opac.gov.on.ca)

Reports
No

Additional Comments
Data are collected under the authority of the Ontario Pesticides Act and Regulation 914.

The PEPSIS database links with information in the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) label information database.