Bill C-80:
A Citizens Discussion Paper

Preface

Summary

Introduction

Issues Raised by Bill C-80:

1. Placing Food Safety Enforcement Under a Trade Promotion Framework
   
   
2. Weakening the Role of the Health Minister in Food Safety Protection
   
   
3. Lessening Food Safety Protection For All - Ending False Health Claims Protection
   
   
4. Shifting the Onus of Proof - Instituting Risk Management
   
   
5. Legally Enabling Genetic Engineered Foods and Novel Traits in Feeds, Fertilizers and Seeds with Limiting Environmental Release and Minimal Food Safety Requirements
   
   
6. No Guarantee of Rigorous Research and Testing for Food Safety
   
   
7. Leaving Out the Standards for Producing the Most Nutritious Foods
   
   
8. Forsaking any Connection Between Safe Food and Sustainable Food Production
   
   
9. Confusing the Lines Between Foods and Drugs and the Resulting Mixed Signals on Fortified Foods and Functional Foods and Herbal Products Being Safe
   
   
10. Disease-Free Animal Health Safety and Pest-Free Plant Protection Offer a Better Deal Than the Food Safety Protection that Humans Get
    
    
11. Keeping the Food Inspection System Weak
    
    
12. Promoting Market Access for the Biotechnology and Food Industries in the Guise of Acceptable Food Trade Practices
    
    
13. Including Protecting Seed Patent Monopolies in Food Safety Legislation
    
    
14. Emergency Powers Too Little, Too Late, and Creating Exemptions to Food Safety
    
    
15. Back Door Recognition of Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty
    
    
16. Token Public Participation and Limited Consumer Representation and Intervention
    
    
17. Limiting Accountability, Access, Disclosure and the Public's Right to Know

Concluding Comments:

Dumping Bill C-80 and Citizen Organizing Around the Food Safety