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The committee gives Health Canada independent scientific advice on the health and environmental risks of pesticides, and does evaluations for new products and reviews.

Anyone remember another time Canada ignored a preponderance of evidence about health affects of a product they said was safe?

  • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    He said legal constraints may have prevented the committee from looking at contentious pesticides, raising questions about transparency.

    Well I for one am comforted to know that we have a robust legal system in place to protect [checks notes] pesticide manufacturers from having their products… um… [thumbs through pages] evaluated for safety.