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"The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Marie-Claude Bibeau, has not yet approved proposals from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) that would let companies do their own environmental assessments for some gene-edited seeds and leave farmers dependent on companies to find out if their seeds are gene-edited. Send your protest letter to the Minister today from this page by filing out the green form on the right of this page or click here to send your Seed Packet message today!
The Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos, has approved Health Canada’s changes to remove regulation from some GM gene-edited foods but this decision can be reversed. All genetically engineered foods, including foods produced using gene editing techniques, need to be assessed for safety by Health Canada.
Summary Update: Despite the objections of over 105 groups and thousands of Canadians like you, Health Canada announced (May 18, 2022) that it will allow companies to sell some gene-edited foods without any government safety checks. Companies can now also sell these genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) foods without telling the government about them. These regulatory exemptions apply to foods from gene-edited plants that have no foreign DNA (there is no DNA from other species incorporated). This decision to allow corporate self-regulation of these GM foods was approved by the Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos. The Minister of Agriculture is now considering similar corporate self-regulation of new GM seeds."
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