Mad Dog Case on Glyphosate: PMRA Refuses Action on New Science

Health Canada dismisses significance of new science, including forest studies, leaving Safe Food Matters to consider further action.
 

Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has decided to not take any steps regarding the registration of glyphosate, even after the Court ordered it to look at new science.
Safe Food Matters is reviewing PMRA’s decision to do nothing and is considering next steps.

PMRA took the decision, even though it was aware of new science from the Ramazinni institute that shows glyphosate causes cancer, and even though it was aware of risks to peoples who eat forest food from Safe Food Matters’ Forest Spraying & Forest Food Report that shows high levels of glyphosate arise in berries after forest spraying and that Indigenous peoples (and others) eat these berries.

The PMRA was told by the Federal Court on March 3, 2025, to redetermine the application for renewal of a glyphosate product, “Mad Dog Plus,” …Read More