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Canadian charity working to protect the health of Canadians by affecting regulatory policy on pesticides and other food inputs. Currently in court with Health Canada over glyphosate.
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Letter to:
Canada’s Environmental Minister Guilbeault, Health Minister Holland and Agriculture Minister MacAulay

Re. #CropLife’s role in public policy development

From:
David Suzuki Foundation
Environmental Defence
Ecojustice Canada
Nature Canada
Wilderness Committee
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Canadian Environmental Law Association
Safe Food Matters Inc.
Birds Canada
Friends of the Earth Canada
Prevent Cancer Now
Good news! 🎉
We won our preliminary hearing—now Health Canada must show us that they have looked at the new science on #glyphosate presented to them, or tell us that they didnt.

This will prove very helpful to us for our main action on this case.

See the Reasons for the Glyphosate Renewal case.

https://safefoodmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-03-30-T-169-23-Rule-317-Order-and-Reasons.pdf
Daily News: Groups Petition EPA to Remove from the Market the Weed Killer Glyphosate

Last week, farmworker organizations and Beyond Pesticides—represented by the Center for Food Safety—filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging that the weed killer glyphosate be removed from the market.

[The farmworker groups petitioning include the Farmworker Association of Florida, Lideres Campesinas, Alianza Nacional De Campesinas, and the Rural Coalition.]

Jay Feldman, the executive director of Beyond Pesticides:

“The threat of glyphosate is way outside the bounds of any reasonable person’s definition of acceptable harm, surpasses allowable risk under federal pesticide law, and represents the poster child for what has gone dangerously wrong with EPA’s program to control toxic pesticides in our environment, homes, workplaces, and communities, with disproportionate injury to farmworkers and landscapers...”

“...This petition attempts to hold EPA accountable to the rule of law, while recognizing that glyphosate, which causes adverse effects to biological systems—from soil microbiota to the gut microbiome, can be replaced by cost-effective organic food production and land management.”

Prior litigation in 2022 struck down EPA’s human health assessment, with the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finding that the agency wrongfully dismissed glyphosate’s cancer risk. Meanwhile, verdicts against the manufacturer, Bayer, continue to pile up—a December jury verdict in Pennsylvania awarding $3.5 million and a November jury in Missouri ordering $1.56 billion to be paid to four plaintiffs.

Click here to read the petition: https://ow.ly/1MHy50Qkgy3

Daily News Blog Post: https://ow.ly/X27G50Qkgyf