On October 8th, 2026, PI Danita Burke was interviewed by CBC Radio’s Patrick Butler resulting in project coverage on our work on the 2024 EU fitness check on its seal product regulations. You can check out the interview on the CBC radio program The Broadcast starting at minute 9:14 and a French language article titled “L’UE tarde à décider de l’avenir de son interdiction des produits du phoque“.
If you would like to know more about our work on the EU fitness check, you can check out the following pieces:
Burke, D. (2026) “The EU’s role in legitimizing the stigmatization of sealing and sealers.” The Polar Journal, 1–21.
Burke, D. and Kielsen, E. (2025). “Acknowledging and Addressing the Absence of Greenlandic Public Input into the EU’s 2024 Public Consultations on the Fitness of its Trade in Seal Products Regulations”. SDU Arctic, November 8.
Burke, D. and Kielsen, E. (2025). “The European Union excluded Greenland from public consultations on the EU seal product ban. Why?” The Conversation Canada, August 27.
Website Pieces – EU Trade in Seal Products Fitness Test Series
Comments provided to the “Trade in seal products – fitness check of EU rules” 2024 public consultations (Canada) (June 2, 2025)
Comments provided to the “Trade in seal products – fitness check of EU rules” 2024 public consultations (Sweden) (May 5, 2025)
Comments provided to the “Trade in seal products – fitness check of EU rules” 2024 public consultations (Denmark) (April 7, 2025)
Comments provided to the “Trade in seal products – fitness check of EU rules” 2024 public consultations (Finland) (March 24, 2025)
