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Falls Prevention

last reviewed: October 2008

Food Biotechnology

  • Web-based Resources

    • Biotechnology Regulatory Assistance Virtual Office
      The Virtual Office documents the various Governmental Acts, regulations and guidelines that apply to biotechnological processes.

    • Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
      The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) is a membership organization for health professionals. It is committed to the protection and promotion of human health by addressing issues of local and global environmental degradation.

    • Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN)
      CBAN promotes food sovereignty and democratic decision-making on science and technology issues in order to protect the integrity of the environment, health, food, and the livelihoods of people in Canada and around the world by facilitating, informing and organizing civil society action, researching, and providing information to government for policy development.

    • Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition (CCFN)
      The Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition is a multi-sectoral, science-based organization on food and nutrition policy and information. We are a catalyst in advancing nutritional health and well-being of Canadians. Our key priorities and activities serve to influence nutritional health based on solid scientific evidence. The Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition (CCFN) was created out of a union of the mandates of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and the Canadian Food Information Council (CFIC) in 2004.

    • Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
      The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is responsible for the regulation of products derived through biotechnology including plants, animal feeds and animal feed ingredients, fertilizers and veterinary biologics. For genetically modified crop plants, the CFIA assesses the potential risk of adverse environmental effects; authorizes and oversees import permits, confined trials, unconfined release and variety registration.

    • Centre for Science in the Public Interest
      The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a non-profit education and advocacy organization that focuses on improving the safety and nutritional quality of our food supply and on reducing the carnage caused by alcoholic beverages. The CSPI seeks to promote health through educating the public about nutrition and alcohol; it represents citizens' interests before legislative, regulatory, and judicial bodies; and it works to ensure advances in science are used for the public good.

      The CSPI Biotechnology Project addresses scientific concerns, government policies, and corporate practices concerning genetically engineered (GE) plants, animals, and other organisms that are released into the environment or that may end up in our foods.

    • The Council of Canadians
      The Council of Canadians, an independent, non-partisan citizens' interest group providing a critical and progressive voice on key national and international issues. The Council of Canadians worked for many years to oppose genetic engineering and stop the growth of factory farming in Canada. Two new organizations have recently been created to work on these important issues: the Beyond Factory Farming Coalition and the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN).

    • Greenpeace
      Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. They challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and educating and engaging the public.

    • Health Canada
      Recognizing that food is fundamental to health, the mission of the Food Program is to protect and improve the health of the people of Canada through science-based policies and programs related to safe and nutritious food. Health Canada's vision is to be a client-focussed organization within an integrated public health network recognized worldwide as a leader in protecting and improving health through public health policies related to safe and nutritious food for Canadians.

      Health Canada is responsible for assessing the human health safety of products derived through biotechnology including foods, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices and pest control products. In the case of novel foods, each safety assessment considers the process used to develop the novel food, its characteristics compared to those of its traditional counterpart, its nutritional quality, the potential presence of any toxicants or anti-nutrients, and the potential allergenicity of any proteins introduced into the food.

    • Industry Canada - Biotechnology: Ethics and the Industry
      This web site couples ethical considerations that arise from certain biotechnology applications to related background scientific information, industry initiatives in ethics, and laws, conventions, and guidelines that address these issues. Developments occurring in Canada and around the world are presented.

    • International Food Information Council (US) Food Biotechnology
      click on "Food Safety & Nutrition Information", then "Food Biotechnology"
      The IFIC Foundation is the educational arm of the International Food Information Council (IFIC). The foundation's mission is to communicate science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers. IFIC is supported primarily by the broad-based food, beverage and agricultural industries.

    • Royal Society of Canada (RSC)
      283 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 7X9
      T: (613) 991-6990, F: (613) 991-6996, adminrsc [at] rsc.ca

      The Royal Society of Canada, The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. Its primary objective is to promote learning and research in the natural and social sciences and in the humanities. The Society consists of approximately 1600 Fellows: men and women from across the country who are selected by their peers for outstanding contributions to the arts and sciences.
      A Royal Society Expert Scientific Panel was created in December 1999 to advise government on the scientific capacity of the regulatory system regarding genetically modified foods. Download their report [PDF].

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last reviewed: October 2008

Food Security

last reviewed: August 2010

 

 

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