Sustainable Pest Management, a key goal of Health Canada's PMRA, shares the same goals as pollution prevention: to prevent the development of threats to health and the environment and minimize such threats if they do arise.

PMRA’s mandate under the Pest Control Products Act is to prevent unacceptable risks to people and the environment from the use of pest control products. A key approach to pesticide risk reduction is to combine modern health and environmental standards for new products and re-evaluation of older products while ensuring product efficacy, in addition to developing and promoting the use of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). All of these approaches support sustainable pest management.

Through its IPM Partnership Projects, Urban Pest Management Strategy and the Commodity-Based Risk Reduction Program , the PMRA, in collaboration with its partners including Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the FPT Committee on Pest Management and Pesticides, is working with Canadian users of pest control products move toward sustainable pest management through activities in areas of agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, industrial and urban. These are voluntary programs. These activities recognize that pest control must be integrated with overall pest management strategies where all necessary techniques are used to suppress pests effectively, economically and in an environmentally sound manner.

• Sustainable Pest Management (SPM Series)
• Reduced-Risk Update (RR Series)