Evaluate product performance
Compare your product with a suitable control or benchmark. Depending on the scope, measure crop growth, yield, quality, nutrient uptake, root response, and visible crop injury under defined greenhouse conditions.
Fertilizers, Supplements & Canadian Market Entry
Independent fertilizer validation and CFIA technical support.
Bringing a fertilizer or supplement to Canada? AGS helps manufacturers, importers, and distributors plan greenhouse trials, evaluate crop response, and organize technical evidence for discussions with CFIA or your regulatory adviser.
Discuss Your Fertilizer ProjectHow AGS Can Help
Connect product evaluation with your next market-entry step.
Organize the evidence
Bring together product information, intended use, existing studies, trial protocols, and results. Identify unanswered technical questions and where specialist laboratory analysis or regulatory advice may be needed.
Plan the trial before shipping
Develop the technical trial plan alongside the applicable research and import requirements. Confirm responsibilities for site arrangements, product handling, containment, and disposal before work starts.
CFIA Registration & Import Requirements
Performance testing and regulatory review answer different questions.
Some fertilizers and most supplements require CFIA registration before importation or sale in Canada. Requirements depend on the product, ingredients, intended use, and applicable exemptions. CFIA’s pre-market assessment focuses on safety information and labelling; a successful crop-performance trial does not replace those requirements.
What this means for your project
- Confirm the product-specific registration and import requirements before shipping.
- Determine whether the proposed research needs authorization. Where required, authorization must be obtained before the trial begins; additional import permits may also apply.
- Define the evidence needed before commissioning trials or specialist analyses.
AGS provides trial design, independent evaluation, analysis, and technical reporting within an agreed scope. CFIA determines regulatory requirements and makes registration and authorization decisions. AGS does not issue CFIA approvals or guarantee an application outcome.
Typical Deliverables
A defined protocol, transparent results, and a useful technical record.
Trial protocol
Objectives, treatments, comparison, replication, application rates, measurement schedule, and analysis plan.
Independent report
Methods, data summaries, statistical analysis, findings, and limitations, including inconclusive or unfavourable results.
Technical evidence summary
An organized account of available product information, study findings, and outstanding questions for your regulatory discussions.
Where the agreed scope includes application-related technical support, AGS can prepare trial descriptions and summarize relevant findings for your submission team. Specialist safety testing and regulatory representation are scoped separately where needed.
How AGS approaches independent third-party validation →Common Questions
Planning fertilizer validation in Canada.
Do I need a greenhouse efficacy trial to obtain CFIA registration?
Do not assume a performance trial is a registration requirement. CFIA’s fertilizer assessments focus on safety and labelling. AGS can evaluate agronomic performance while you confirm the product-specific information needed for registration with CFIA or your regulatory adviser.
Can I send an unregistered product to Canada for a trial?
Research provisions may apply, but eligibility, authorization, and import requirements must be checked for the specific product and trial. Contact AGS before shipping so the technical scope and required confirmations can be planned together.
Can AGS review results from an existing fertilizer trial?
Yes. We can review the design, data quality, analysis, and interpretation. The report identifies the source of the data and distinguishes an independent review from a trial that AGS conducted or monitored.
Start With the Product and Your Goal
Tell us what you want to test or bring to Canada.
Share the product category, intended crop and use, country of manufacture, current registration status if known, available studies, and your timeline. Begin with a high-level description; confidential formulation details can be discussed through an agreed transfer method.
Discuss Your Fertilizer ProjectAn enquiry does not commit you to paid work. Scope, deliverables, timing, and fees are agreed before paid work begins.
Official CFIA guidance
Product-specific requirements should be checked against current CFIA guidance.