With regard to Health Canada’s decisions to no longer require beef and pork manufacturers to label whether or not their products were from cloned animals and to remove cloned meat from the “novel foods” category: (a) what are the details, including the methodology and findings, of all studies Health Canada relied on in making these decisions; (b) what risks did Health Canada analyze when making these decisions, and what were the conclusions related to each of the risks; (c) what is Health Canada’s response to consumers that wish to know whether or not the meat they are purchasing is coming from cloned animals; and (d) on what date did the Minister of Health approve each of these decisions?
Q-588 , 45th Parliament, 1st session May 26, 2025, to present
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Marilyn Gladu
(Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong)
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November 19, 2025
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January 26, 2026
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Department of Health
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