Recent resignations suggest industry has too much sway with Health Canada: NDP

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NDP MP Don Davies scrums with media in Ottawa on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood The resignation of a scientific adviser from the federal pesticide regulator is yet another example of industry having too much influence at Health Canada, the NDP’s health critic is alleging. Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a health-sciences professor at Simon Fraser University, stepped down as co-chair of the department’s scientific advisory committee on pest control products late last month.

 

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