# PMRA Pest Control Registrant Inspections – Canada (`loudtzu/pmra-registrant-inspections`) Actor

Health Canada PMRA inspections of pest control product registrants: company, date, compliant/non-compliant rating, measures and each observation with its legal reference. No street addresses.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/loudtzu/pmra-registrant-inspections.md
- **Developed by:** [Travis M](https://apify.com/loudtzu) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 inspections

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## PMRA Pest Control Registrant Inspections – Canada

### What it does

Reads Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) **Pest Control Product Registrant Inspections** open data and returns one item per inspection (261 inspections, June 2016 to February 2023). Each item has the company inspected, city, province/state and country, end date, the Compliant / Non-compliant rating, the measures taken, and a list of observations with the Pest Control Products Act reference in English and French.

The source CSV has one row per observation; the Actor groups them into one inspection each. It makes one download per run from open.canada.ca.

Source: [Pest Control Product Registrant Inspections Database on open.canada.ca](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/5d379500-64ab-4bc4-9b4e-ab6f9cbcc695).

### Who it's for

Compliance and regulatory-affairs teams, pesticide and biocide suppliers checking partners, distributors, insurers, journalists and researchers.

### Input

| Key | Notes |
|---|---|
| `keyword` | company name contains |
| `rating` | `any` (default), `compliant`, `nonCompliant` |
| `province` | exact code, e.g. `ON`, `QC`, `OH` |
| `country` | exact name, e.g. `Canada` |
| `dateFrom` / `dateTo` | inspection end date, `YYYY-MM-DD` |
| `legislativeReference` | an observation cites this, e.g. `6(2)` |
| `maxItems` | default 100, at most 50,000 |

Example: `{"rating": "nonCompliant", "province": "QC"}`

### Output

`referenceNumber`, `inspectionEndDate`, `inspectionYear`, `regulatedParty`, `regulatedPartyWithheld`, `city`, `province`, `country`, `rating`, `compliant`, `outcome`, `measuresTaken`, `correctiveActionRequired`, `observationCount`, `observations`, `lookupUrl`, `source`, `licence`.

### Privacy

- The output is reduced, not anonymous: personal fields are dropped, but the remaining records are still public data about named organisations.
- **Dropped:** the three street lines and the postal code. Only city, province/state and country are kept.
- The source has no contact names, emails or phones.
- A regulated-party name that looks like an individual person (for example a given name, middle initial and surname with no company suffix) is blanked, with `regulatedPartyWithheld: true`. On the Oct 16, 2026 data this was 1 of 261 inspections ("KAI R. SPANGENBERG EFTF I/S", a Danish sole-proprietor business). Firm names made of surnames, such as "GROULX & ROBERTSON", are kept.

### Licence and terms

- **Licence:** [Open Government Licence – Canada](https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada), which allows use "including for commercial purposes" with attribution. Every item carries the attribution.
- **Automated access:** the file is an open.canada.ca resource download. open.canada.ca robots.txt allows it with `Crawl-delay: 20`; the Actor makes a single request. No terms were found that ban automated download of open data.
- Independent; not endorsed by Health Canada.

### Pricing

**Price: $0.003 per result, no start fee** (pay per event, one result = one inspection). The full list (261 inspections) costs about $0.78.

### Limits

- The published file is dated 2023-03-20 and covers inspections up to February 2023. Health Canada has not posted a newer export on open.canada.ca; its own search page (`lookupUrl`) may be more current.
- This is inspection data, not the list of registered products. A rating applies to the inspection, not to the company as a whole.
- Observations are passed through as published; English text comes from the source's English column.

# Actor input Schema

## `keyword` (type: `string`):

Case-insensitive match on the regulated party's name.

## `rating` (type: `string`):

Filter by inspection rating.

## `province` (type: `string`):

Exact code, e.g. ON, QC, OH.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Exact name, e.g. Canada, United States of America.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD

## `legislativeReference` (type: `string`):

Keep inspections with an observation citing this, e.g. 6(2) or 8(5).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many inspections (default 100, at most 50,000).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "rating": "any",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All items returned by the run, in the 'overview' table view.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("loudtzu/pmra-registrant-inspections").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("loudtzu/pmra-registrant-inspections").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call loudtzu/pmra-registrant-inspections --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,loudtzu/pmra-registrant-inspections"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/g0xi12d9D0b943ZS1/builds/qGcBcJi4AVIZ0L6Tr/openapi.json