Health Canada is expected to publish a response to objections made against research about glyphosate.
In 2017, Health Canada released a final re-evaluation on the herbicide and there were eight notices of objection and concerns about the validity of some of the science around glyphosate.
In a release, Health Canada officials it as being referred to publicly as the Monsanto papers.
The responses are expected to be published Monday.
Health Canada says its primary objective in regulating pesticides is to protect Canadians' health and the environment and the Department regularly reviews all pesticides to make sure they continue to meet modern health and safety standards.
And department officials go on to say that after a thorough scientific review, they have concluded the concerns raised by the objectors could not be scientifically supported when considering the entire body of relevant data.
Adding the objections raised did not create doubt or concern regarding the scientific basis for the 2017 re-evaluation decision for glyphosate and the Department's final decision will stand.
In that 2017 re-evaluation, the highlights included: Glyphosate is not genotoxic and is unlikely to pose a human cancer risk. Dietary, food and drinking water, exposure associated with the use of glyphosate is not expected to pose a risk of concern to human health. And all registered glyphosate uses have value for weed control in agriculture and non-agricultural land management.
The deparment notes that no pesticide regulatory authority in the world currently considers glyphosate to be a cancer risk to humans at the levels at which humans are currently exposed.
Health Canada selected a group of 20 of its own scientists, who were not involved in the 2017 re-evaluation. to evaluate the notices of objection.
