Timeline for the PMRA’s second Special Review on atrazine

A letter from five environmental and health organizations to Canada's Minister of Health requesting a specific completion deadline of April 2018 for the Pest Management Regulatory Agency's (PMRA) second special review of the herbicide atrazine.

• Five organizations—Équiterre, Ecojustice, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), Environmental Defence, and the David Suzuki Foundation—are urging the Minister of Health to direct the PMRA to complete its second special review of atrazine by April 2018.
• The authors argue that the PMRA's first Special Review of atrazine, concluded in March 2017, was flawed because it was too narrowly scoped to only evaluate groundwater contamination, ignoring surface water exposure, endocrine disrupting effects on aquatic animals, and health impacts on rural communities and farm workers.
• Atrazine is used in Canada for corn and sorghum production, but it has been banned in the European Union since 2004 due to groundwater contamination concerns.
• The organizations highlight a failure in regulatory timing, noting that the PMRA did not launch its first Special Review until 2013, despite the European Union ban in 2004 and the requirements of section 17(2) of the Pest Control Products Act (PCPA).

APA

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (2017). Timeline for the PMRA’s second Special Review on atrazine. https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1.Letter-to-Hon.-Jane-Philpott-re-Timeline-for-the-PMRA’s-second-Special-Review-on-Atrazine-May-2017.pdf#new_tab

Chicago

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Timeline for the PMRA’s second Special Review on atrazine. 2017. https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1.Letter-to-Hon.-Jane-Philpott-re-Timeline-for-the-PMRA’s-second-Special-Review-on-Atrazine-May-2017.pdf#new_tab.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{canadianassociationofphysiciansfortheenvironment2017timeline, author = {{Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment}}, title = {{Timeline for the PMRA’s second Special Review on atrazine}}, publisher = {Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment}, year = {2017}, month = may, url = {https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1.Letter-to-Hon.-Jane-Philpott-re-Timeline-for-the-PMRA’s-second-Special-Review-on-Atrazine-May-2017.pdf#new_tab}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }