Hello friends, I did not wish to swamp you with too many mails, but this is a good news you deserve to know. Health Canada has accepted our request, for safety test analysis data as requested under the Access to Information (ATI) and Privacy Act, and promises to respond. We know the law requires them to respond within 30 days, or inform me in writing that they need more time if the gather the data. In the past, I have had other information asked from Health Canada under ATI, and have gotten response back, though the responses have been unsatisfactory. This time I tried to describe the request in greater detail so as not to send me partial or outdated information. The wording of the request is : Quote Requesting copy of raw safety test data and accompanying report based on which Health Canada approved use of glyphosate in Canadian agriculture. The requested document should be from tests that involved subjecting target mammals to be exposed to the chemical glyphosate, which is the active ingredient in RoundUp brand of herbicide, over a period of time, and comparing their health parameters against another group of same mammals that were not subjected to glyphosate. The document should not only include summary analysis reports based on the data collected in the test, but also the raw data itself. Usually such tests are done by the makers of the product, such as Monsanto, and such test reports may have thousands of pages of data and a few pages of summary. Requesting copy of the entire document, with the raw data and any analysis report based on the raw data. If Heath Canada never sighted such a safety report before approving glyphosate, then it should state that clearly. Unquote I am aware of a small misspelling - use of the word "sighted". This has a different meaning here and I have been informed of such mistake a few times already. That word by the way is commonly used in India where I grew up, often to mean "to have set sight on" or in other words "seen and studied", which is different from "cited" which means to refer to an item, such as a document. Anyhow, I have promised myself not to use the word "sighted" again on official correspondence in Canada. Apparently, Health Canada, Access to Information division does not find the word too perplexing, else, as the letter says, they might call me up to clarify it. I intend to keep you all posted on what transpires and what kind of response I get. Lets keep our fingers crossed. Tony Mitra