Canadian regulators and their U.S. counterparts have been working to “harmonize” their pesticide regulations since 1996, as part of the (NAFTA) North American Free Trade Agreement. Now the effort is being fast-tracked as an initiative under the Security and Prosperity Partnership. … The SPP's 2006 report identified stricter residue limits as "barriers to trade."
Boyd's report, published by the B.C.-based David Suzuki Foundation, raised concerns about the levels of pesticide residue allowed both in the U.S. and Canada.
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