Legalizing “Low-Level Presence” of Unapproved GMOs By Lucy Sharratt, CBAN Published in British Columbia Organic Grower, Volume 21, Issue 2. Spring 2018. Contamination from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is a problem for some crop types. For example, most...
Letter to the Editor, published in The Western Producer, April 12, 2018 The editorial, “Health Canada is obligated to approve Golden Rice,” (WP, April 5), interprets the department’s decision as a “humanitarian gesture,” but that is an assumption — an incorrect...
Opinion – published in The Guardian, PEI August 2, 2017 by Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network Company has started construction but doesn’t yet have federal approval to produce genetically modified salmon at Rollo Bay The...
By Lucy Sharratt, CBAN. Published December 2016 in the BC Organic Grower In March 2015, Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) got approval for its GM non-browning Golden Delicious and Granny Smith apples in both Canada and the United States. The US government also just...
by Lucy Sharratt, Power & Influence magazine, The Hill Times, July 2016 After twenty years, the use of genetically engineering (more popularly called genetic modification or GM) in food and farming is still being fought over in Canada and around the world, and is...
Case Study: Agriculture Canada to remove Health Canada from safety assessment of some GM foods, by Lucy Sharratt, CBAN Coordinator, in The Harper Record 2008-2015, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, October 2015.
