Is red tape strangling innovation

[wd9]

Thanks for the reply. Seems to me the pony oats market has a pesticide free product exactly as you describe, preseed burn OK, but nothing post emergent or in-crop. Perhaps one more avenue.

Personally I think the idea of a pesticide free (PF) product has tremendous potential. CFIA certainly has a point that no pesticides should be used in order to be PF, especially with ingredients such as ethalfluralin (edge), not incrop, yet detectable in the final product. Over 2700 pesticides can be checked for now, but is costly.

A creative name for the end product claiming nothing post emergent may be all CFIA is after as oppposed to completely PF. Making sure the consumer gets the product as is designated on the package is their purpose, and of course safe for feed, food and the environment. Call it green pesticide free production or something like that, or living PFP.

[charliep]

Just an interesting comment that the US is close to having a more defined process for making health claims for food products. That will be important as we work to develop novell trait crops/use processes like fractionation to pull out high valued products. An issue will be when we can sell a crop into/processed product into the US with a health claim/benefit and yet Canadian rules prevent us from doing the same thing here at home.