Urban Pesticide Ban List from Quebec

Trade names of pesticides banned for consumer sale and use in urban areas of Quebec, Canada. The list is maintained by the Government and Municipalities of Québec for administrative purposes and was last updated in February 2026. It identifies products by their registration number, trade name, prohibited active ingredients, and regulatory class.

Use Cases

• Verify product compliance by checking a pesticide's trade_name against the list of banned active_ingredients.
• Analyze regulatory trends by examining the class of products banned under the Pesticide Management Code.
• Cross-reference commercial products using the registration_number from the Pest Control Products Act.
• Identify substitution candidates by finding products containing specific prohibited active_ingredient(s).

Strengths

• Explicitly links trade names to specific legal articles and annexes (I, III, IV of the Code).
• Provides multiple machine-readable formats including CSV and XLSX for analysis.
• Maintained by a governmental authority (Government and Municipalities of Québec).

Limitations

• The dataset's administrative nature means it has no official legal value, as stated in the description.
• Unknown row count and temporal coverage limit analysis of list changes over time.
• Geographic scope is limited to the province of Quebec, Canada.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec.

Collection Method

Compiled from administrative lists for applying pesticide sale and use regulations.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-27.

Geography

Province of Quebec, Canada, focusing on urban areas.