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Veteran civil servant made his mark during the BSE crisis

Brian Evans retires from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency

By Alex Binkley May 24, 2013

After ages as the federal government’s public face of food safety, Brian Evans has taken a well-earned retirement, but not the quiet kind. In addition to being the country’s chief veterinary officer and chief food safety officer, Evans was the government’s main spokesman during the 2003 BSE crisis. But the biggest food safety event was

Beef cattle, Livestock, News, Other livestock

France tops EU for levels of horsemeat found in beef products

By Charlie Dunmore April 26, 2013

France found more cases of illegal horsemeat in beef products than any other European Union country, results of official DNA tests ordered in the wake of the scandal showed, with more than one in every eight samples testing positive. Announcing the results April 16, the European Commission said that for the EU as a whole,

Crops

Canadian farmers in a good place, bank says

By Alex Binkley April 26, 2013

Agood harvest last year has put Canadian farmers in the driver’s seat for this year as steady production growth should lead to strong exports to emerging markets, says an analysis from BMO. “Rapid economic expansion in emerging markets and lagging demand growth from south of the border has resulted in increasing export market diversification,” Aaron

Hogs, Livestock, News

Tim Hortons expects stall-free pork by 2022

By Dave Bedard April 18, 2013

Having reviewed its pork suppliers’ plans to phase out the use of gestation stalls for breeding sows, Canada’s iconic Tim Hortons chain now expects to have moved to stall-free pork by the year 2022. In the Oakville, Ont. company’s annual Sustainability and Responsibility report, released April 3, Tim Hortons said it has “consulted with our

News

U.S. food retailer to require GMO disclosure labels

By Lisa Baertlein March 16, 2013

The prevalence of GMOs in the United States, coupled with a lack of labelling requirements, has made it very difficult for retailers to source non-GMO options

Reuters / Whole Foods Market Inc. will require all products sold in its U.S. and Canadian stores to carry a label by 2018 saying whether they contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the organic and natural grocery seller said March 8. The United States is the world’s largest market for foods made with genetically altered ingredients.

Hogs, Livestock, News

Smithfield board to review advice from big shareholder

March 16, 2013

reuters / Smithfield Foods Inc. said March 8 it would review a letter from shareholder Continental Grain Co., which is urging the top U.S. hog producer to consider steps such as splitting into three units and initiating a regular cash dividend. Shares of Smithfield rose 3.3 per cent to $25.50 in pre-market trading. Smithfield said

Beef cattle, Opinion, Other livestock

Truth and trust hit the dirt

By Laura Rance-Unger March 7, 2013

The ongoing horsemeat scandal crippling the European food industry brings several rather awkward questions to mind. First of all, what’s wrong with horsemeat? On the surface, nothing, except many of us, if given the choice, would prefer not to eat it. The problem is that people weren’t given the choice. In fact, they were lied

Beef cattle, International news, Livestock, Other livestock

Horsemeat found in lasagne dishes in Bulgaria

March 7, 2013

Reuters / Some 86 kilos of lasagne dishes will be destroyed in Bulgaria, after its food safety agency confirmed Feb. 21 the dishes taken from shelves recently contained horsemeat labelled as beef. Horsemeat has been found in beef products across Europe in recent weeks, damaging confidence in the continent’s vast and complex food industry. “This

Cereals, Opinion

More than met the eye to Whelan

By Alex Binkley February 28, 2013

Eugene Whelan will be remembered mostly for his green Stetson, inability to speak either of Canada’s official languages and his cheerleading for the farm community. Too bad because there was a lot more to the former Liberal agriculture minister, who died just weeks after his Conservative counterpart John Wise. He was a lot politically shrewder

Beef cattle, International news, Livestock, Other livestock

Britain’s food agency seeks stringent tests on beef products

February 23, 2013

reuters / Britain’s horsemeat scandal has prompted the Food Standards Agency to demand a more stringent meat-testing program from U.K.’s retailers. The agency has demanded that food retailers and suppliers test all beef products such as burgers, meatballs and lasagne and present their findings to the agency by February 15. Britain’s food industry has been

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle sink ahead of semi-annual inventory report

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat futures firm on recent dollar slide, winter weather

Feed Grains Weekly: More consideration being given to U.S. corn

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