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Dairy initiative seeks to reassure consumers

The program aims to meet consumer concerns in a farmer-friendly fashion

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Canadian dairy farmers have launched a mandatory program to document the sector’s commitment to food safety, environmental protection and animal care. The proAction Initiative, a Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) undertaking, is designed to show consumers how farmers tend to their animals and land in a sustainable way and will allow farmers to benchmark their
Canadian food manufacturers want enough time to carefully analyze a proposal to lower ingredient tariffs.
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Food processors anxious to start ingredient tariff consultations

Finance Department has yet to provide manufacturers with meaningful information on talks

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Food processors are full of questions as they await promised consultations regarding eliminating tariffs on food-manufacturing ingredients. Finance Canada is set to lead the talks promised in last month’s federal budget. The budget proposed removing tariffs on ingredients, except dairy and poultry, to make food processing in Canada more competitive internationally, the government said in
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Dairy cattle, News

Grey market milk substitutes could see crackdown at Canada-U.S. border

U.S. processors are becoming adept at creating products that circumvent importation restrictions, critics say

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The federal government is promising the dairy industry a crackdown on surging milk substitute imports. NAFTA regulations exempt U.S. dairy producers from tariff rate quotas (TRQs) on milk protein products, giving them nearly unfettered access to the Canadian market for these products. They’re used mainly to make cheese, and the dairy industry says the U.S.
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Massive CFIA regulatory overhaul back in gear

Mandate letters for ministers stress food safety, making move no surprise, say industry insiders

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Redrafting the regulatory powers of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is back on the front burner after being set to simmer during the 2015 federal election. Food industry insiders like Albert Chambers, executive director of the Canadian Supply Chain Food Safety Coalition, say they’ve been told to expect to see movement soon. The former government
Manitoba Pork Council’s Andrew Dickson says CFIA doesn’t truly understand the ramifications of letting a temporary program aimed at keeping PED out of Manitoba lapse.
Hogs, News

CFIA mum on possible extension to transport trailer-cleaning exemption

Pork producers are facing a looming deadline that could introduce 
the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus to Manitoba farms

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The Manitoba Pork Council is scrambling to convince federal officials to extend a program credited with keeping porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) out of the province. Under the program, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency allowed trucks returning to Canada after delivering pigs in the U.S. to be sealed and disinfected back in Manitoba. As of May
CFIA’s Mark Forhan told the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) it’s too big.
Cereals, Crops

CFIA tells wheat recommending committee its operating procedures still need work

The Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale thought it had met 
most of former agricuture minister Gerry Ritz’s requests

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The ghost of agriculture minister past haunted the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT) during its annual meeting Feb. 25 in Saskatoon. Gerry Ritz isn’t agriculture minister and there’s a new Liberal government in Ottawa, yet some of his policies on Canada’s variety registration system are still being implemented by the Canadian
Canadian meat-processing plants are regularly inspected by USDA representatives. A letter about a 2014 report was recently published on the USDA website highlighting concerns.
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USDA letter on food plant inspection critical of CFIA

The letter published on USDA website resulted from a regular audit of 
Canadian food plants and government facilities

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A U.S. audit critical of Canadian meat plants has made headlines nearly two years after the fact, even though the Americans found no food safety problems and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has addressed concerns noted about its capacity to properly inspect food plants. When the 2014 report by the USDA’s Food Safety
In the 10 months since Canada’s 19th case of BSE was confirmed in Alberta, nearly 750 other cattle have had to be traced from the animal’s “birth cohort.”
Livestock

CFIA wrapping up latest BSE probe

The Alberta beef cow was born two years after the enhanced feed ban took effect

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Canada’s food safety agency is still tracking down herdmates of the country’s 19th domestic case of BSE, but will otherwise assume the Alberta cow most likely caught the disease from trace proteins in its early feed. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Nov. 30 submitted its final report on Case 19 — a 70-month-old purebred
Calvin Vaags, principal owner of True North Foods, says he’s hopeful CFIA officials will soon give the processing plant near Carman its federal stamp of approval.
Beef cattle, Local news

Processing plant close to getting federal stamp, says owner

When CFIA gives green light, processing will jump to around 1,000 a week. The plant has capacity to expand

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True North Foods, a beef-processing plant near Carman, expects it will have its federal licence very soon, says the plant’s principal owner Calvin Vaags. “I’ve been saying ‘two weeks’ for a long time,” he said during a recent tour by the Manitoba Beef Background and Feedlot School at October’s end, joking he’s considered wearing a
(Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock, Markets

Canada now avian flu-free

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With no new cases in poultry since April and no farms in quarantine since July, Canada has officially declared itself free of avian influenza. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday it has informed the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) that Ontario is free of notifiable avian flu. No new outbreaks of highly pathogenic

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