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CFIA certain Canadian wheat is GM free

It’s based on extensive testing of saved export and harvest samples collected by the Canadian Grain Commission

By Allan Dawson July 6, 2018

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is confident, based on extensive testing, none of the GM wheat it discovered in southern Alberta last summer has entered Canada’s commercial grain-handling or seed system. Canada’s wheat registration system played a role in reaching that conclusion. As of late June, CFIA didn’t know the name of that GM

Crops

Extended-tolerance canola now on deck for 2019

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 17, 2018

Giving growers a wider window to spray in-crop weeds with glyphosate, the new platform for Monsanto’s future canola trait stacks is now booked to make its way into the Canadian market next year. The U.S. seed and chemical company’s Canadian arm announced last week it plans to commercialize TruFlex canola in 2019, following plot trials

Tuberculosis bacteria under an electron microscope. (Janice Haney Carr photo courtesy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.))

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe officially closed

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 3, 2018

An investigation across three provinces following the appearance of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in six Prairie cattle in 2016 has officially closed with no further cases found. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday reported receiving the last of the lab culture test results on about 30,000 animals tested during its probe. “All of the results

Southern Ontario wine grapes on the vine. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops

‘Cellared in Canada’ wine label on way out

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 2, 2018

An often-used euphemism for wines made in Canada from blends using imported product is set to disappear from wine labels. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced the voluntary statement “Cellared in Canada” will no longer be used on labels for wines blended in Canada, as per revisions made in March to the agency’s wine

Livestock

CFIA seeks ‘fundamental change’ in chicken processing

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 28, 2018

Canada’s chicken processors have a year to make plant-level changes to cut the risk of salmonella infection from frozen raw breaded chicken goods. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said March 12 it will require processors to identify salmonella as a hazard likely to occur in these products — and to “implement changes in order to

Beef cattle, Livestock

All quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 12, 2018

The mystery of how six Prairie cattle caught a Mexican strain of bovine tuberculosis (TB) is now expected to remain a mystery indefinitely. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced quarantines have been lifted from all Prairie cattle operations tested during its probe of a bovine TB outbreak beginning in the fall of 2016.

A file photo of BASF’s citral manufacturing plant at Ludwigshafen, Germany. (Photo courtesy BASF SE)

Livestock

Feed manufacturers to retool recipes under vitamin shortage

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 22, 2017

Feed manufacturers up against a global shortage of vitamins A and E will be able to temporarily reformulate their products for sale in Canada without a complete rewrite of their product labels. The shortage stems from an Oct. 31 fire during the startup of an aroma chemicals plant operated by global chemical firm BASF in

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe’s on-farm testing work complete

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 19, 2017

On-farm testing work has wrapped on all the cattle herds that supplied animals in the past five years to an Alberta herd that turned up six cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in the fall of 2016. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported Tuesday it has completed on-farm testing of those “trace-in” herds, which include

Craig Koenig, CFIA’s regional chief inspector for Manitoba, told a Manitoba Seed Growers’ Association meeting his staff are willing to work with private pedigreed seed inspectors to help them do a better job.

Crops, News

Privatized seed inspection sore point for growers

Critics say the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is treating Manitoba differently than other provinces, but add it can fix the problem by working more closely with private inspectors

By Allan Dawson December 14, 2017

Manitoba pedigreed seed growers say they’re being held to a more rigid standard than farmers in other provinces. The complaints, levelled at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) were raised at a Manitoba Seed Growers’ Association (MSGA) meeting here Nov. 30. The allegations, which CFIA officials denied, come from some seed growers and companies providing

News

CFIA turns 20 with no fanfare

Founding executive says he’s surprised there wasn’t at least some notice of the milestone

By Alex Binkley September 25, 2017

In this year of celebrating Canadian anniversaries, one has passed by with almost no notice. Well at least until Ron Doering pointed out that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which he helped create, passed its 20th anniversary in April. Doering led the team of federal officials who drafted the plan in 1995 to extract food

Daily Network News

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Bayer’s bid to curb Roundup cases

Canada-China roundup: Producer groups applaud tariff relief; pork left out; mix of criticism and praise from Trump administration

Opinion: Is a closer trade relationship with China a security risk?

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CFIA certain Canadian wheat is GM free

Extended-tolerance canola now on deck for 2019

Bovine TB probe officially closed

‘Cellared in Canada’ wine label on way out

CFIA seeks ‘fundamental change’ in chicken processing

All quarantines lifted in bovine TB probe

Feed manufacturers to retool recipes under vitamin shortage

Bovine TB probe’s on-farm testing work complete

Privatized seed inspection sore point for growers

CFIA turns 20 with no fanfare

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