OBA questions the rapid review of the Pest Control Products Act
February 9, 2015
Read OBA's letter to Ben Lobb, MP, Chair of the Federal Standing Committee on Health
"It has been brought to our attention that the Federal Standing Committee on Health is implementing a very quick review of the Pest Control Products Act, the law that governs the licensing of pesticides in Canada. Given the serious negative impact of neonicotinoids, which resulted from a precipitous conditional approval of clothianidin more than a decade ago, we wonder why you are undertaking such a rapid process, one that does not engage key stakeholders such as ourselves, or give the general public a chance to respond.
We believe that the government must take the time for a thorough examination of the Act, which has approved chemicals in the past that have a profoundly negative impact on the environment and on the beekeeping industry and, as in the case of neonicotinoid pesticides, which the PMRA has identified in their 2013 report as “not sustainable”.
