Safe Food Matters is a charitable organization working to ensure our food is safe. Our corporate purpose is:
“To promote the health of Canadians by upholding the administration of laws concerning the assessment of the safety of food inputs and of drug products that are protective of human health”.
The focus of our work is in the legal and regulatory arena. Our president, Mary Lou McDonald, is a trained lawyer with 30 years’ experience, and our board has experience in business, event planning and activism.
We have had success in the Courts, having won a case in the Federal Court of Appeal in February, 2022. The Court ordered PMRA, an agency of Health Canada, to revisit its review of our objections to the 2017 risk assessment of glyphosate. The Court in that case provided “Guidance” to PMRA, to improve its decision-making on pesticides. PMRA did revisit the objections, and rejected them again. So we are suing them again. See more under “Glyphosate”.
We also actively engage in Health Canada consultations regarding pesticides, gene editing. drug products and other inputs and techniques that have the potential to impact the health of people.
We were founded in Toronto, Canada in 2016.
