David Maxwell
Re: sourcing pure neem oil in Canada
January 14, 2013 01:03AM Registered: 3 years ago
Posts: 82
This one is actually dead easy. Order it from Ahimsa Alternative (
www.neemresource.com, ph
877-873-6336). They will happily send it to Canada without specifying any particular usage - it is just a jug of neem oil, and what you might do with it is entirely up to you. Canada Customs equally happily takes no interest - again it is just a jug of oil, and they have no interest in what one might want to do with it. (Although they
may want to collect duties on it. ) The Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), (which I think is actually a branch of Health rather than Agriculture), have indeed not approved neem oil for sale as a pesticide. But this is because nobody has paid the very considerable cost of asking for approval, not because anybody has suggested that it might be harmful. The principle here is that everything in the world is banned and considered toxic and dangerous, unless it has been examined and proven safe. So everything is banned by default. But in practice this ban extends only to prohibition of selling commercially in Canada, not to either importation or use. But it would not surprise me if somebody objected to your
selling fruit which had been sprayed with neem, (if they found out...)