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Truth In Labelling

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When a nearby national grocery chain hosted a beef sale last summer, this carnivore grabbed his chequebook and motored to the store’s meatcase as fast as the Exploder’s worn wheel bearings allowed. I was greeted with a ruby wave of shrink-wrapped beef loins sporting stickers that announced their Angus origins. Nowhere, however, could I find
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Washington’s Tough New Food-Safety Law Could Affect Canada

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While it’s too soon to tell for sure, the new U.S. food-safety law could become another big headache for Canadian food exporters. The law, to be implemented over the next 18 months, gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration powers similar to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, namely the authority to proactively protect the food
Crops

U. S. Panel To Consider Pros, Cons Of GMO Salmon – for Sep. 23, 2010

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The first genetically modified animal could move one step closer to the U. S. market this month, when a federal advisory panel makes its recommendation on whether such food– a salmon – is safe for consumers to eat. Both Food and Drug Administration staff and the salmon’s maker, Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc., have said the
Livestock

Provincial Abattoirs May Get Freer Trade

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“(The intent is) an outcome-based process where the standard is set by the quality of product.” – ALLAN PRESTON, MAFRI Along-standing promise to loosen up interprovincial trade may finally come true for provincially licensed livestock slaughter plants. Canada’s agriculture ministers have approved pilot projects to see how provincial plants can sell meat to other provinces
Opinion

Science Loses In Raw Milk Debate

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While most healthy people will recover in a week or so from small exposure to the pathogens that can be present in raw milk, for people with weakened immune systems such as the elderly, children and people with cancer, organ transplants or HIV/AIDS, exposure is dangerous, even fatal. There is a broad scientific consensus that
Crops

U. S. Eyes Regulatory Overhaul

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Since 1987, the USDA has overseen genetically modified organisms through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. APHIS’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services (BRS) regulates GE organisms based on “plant pest risk.” USDA has said it wants to make changes that ensure safety while making the process more transparent to the public, and more efficient and easier
Livestock

Federal Funds Support Turkey Farm Safety

The Turkey Farmers of Canada’s plans to update the course materials for their on-farm food safety program have picked up about $50,000 in federal funding. The turkey producers’ on-farm food safety (OFFS) program, based on hazard analysis of critical control points (HACCP) principles, identifies potential on-farm food safety hazards and provides producers with best management
Country Crossroads

U. S. Agencies Want To Ban Some Kid Food Ads

WASHINGTON/REUTERS In a bid to tackle rising youth obesity, U. S. companies would be prohibited from advertising to children foods that contain large amounts of sugar or salt, or even low levels of trans fats, under a proposal released Dec. 15 by a working group from several U. S. agencies. The working group made up
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In Brief… – for Jul. 23, 2009

Big crop coming: U. S. farmers will harvest their largest soybean crop and the second-largest corn crop ever, leading to softer prices for the commodities, the government said July 10. Crop prices will return to “more normal” levels after last summer’s problems in the world’s top corn and soy producer helped drive prices to record
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Fertilizer And Cattle Do Not Mix

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Veterinarians have received reports of cattle fertilizer poisoning this spring. “With the number of cattle out in pasture and the poor condition of many fences, plus everyone rushing to try to get the crop planted in a very late planting season, these accidental poisonings can and do occur,” says Charlie Stoltenow, North Dakota State University

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