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Food Safety Offenders To Be Revealed

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will start posting the names of importers and domestic food companies that run afoul of food safety laws. “This is a fair and balanced way to protect consumers,” Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told a media briefing at a small community grocery store. “While consumers have a high degree of confidence
Livestock, Poultry

No One In Charge Of Antibiotic Issue

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A2002 Health Canada report mapped out a plan for veterinary medicines that would have solved many of the current controversies about antibiotic resistance in meat products, says John Prescott, a professor at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph. “This was an absolutely outstanding report which involved considerable work and effort from many people across the
Livestock

CFIA To Go Public With Companies’ Safety Violations

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is going online with the outcomes of its enforcement work on food safety. Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on March 16 announced the CFIA will issue reports on such activities, including information such as: Food imports that have been refused entry into Canada; Federally registered food establishments whose licences have
Livestock

Turkey Production Recovering After November Avian Flu Case

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After a stressful 3-1/2 months for poultry producers across Manitoba, U.S. borders have reopened and it’s back to production as usual. Borders reopened to all poultry February 1, 2011, 11 weeks after the Manitoba avian flu case was first reported in a turkey breeder farm. The young breeder who was forced to destroy all of
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Judge Rejects Rancher’s Claim TB Test Is Unsafe

The cost of not complying with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s bovine TB surveillance program is going up. Last week, Rossburn-area rancher Rodney Checkowski was fined $2,500 in a Brandon court on two counts under the Health of Animals Act, one for failing to comply with notices under the act, and one for refusing to
Crops

CFIA Finds No Trace Of Potato Cyst Nematode

Soil samples from potato fields across the country and testing of Canada’s 2010 seed potato crop have turned up no sign of potato cyst nematode (PCN). The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said last month it had collected and analyzed over 43,200 soil samples during the national 2010 PCN survey. The agency said it “prioritized these
Beef cattle, Livestock

Canada Records 18th BSE Case

They’re still finding homegrown BSE cases in Canada nearly eight years after the first one occurred. Canada’s latest case of BSE involves a 77-month-old dairy cow in Alberta, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed. The case was detected Feb. 18. As of last week, CFIA had yet to post it on its website. The agency
Cereals, Crops

New Hard White Spring Wheat Gains Interim Registration

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Canada is inching closer to the kind of wheat quality that could give it an edge in the lucrative Asian noodle markets. The Wheat, Rye and Triticale Registration Recommending Committee granted approval for an interim registration Feb. 24 to a Hard White Spring wheat line developed by Gavin Humphreys, a wheat breeder with the federal
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Anaplasmosis Reappears In Southeastern Manitoba

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More cases of anap lasmosis have been detected in southeastern Manitoba cattle after an outbreak in the region appeared to have died down last summer. Five new herds in the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn have been identified with anaplasmosis-positive cattle since October 2010, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed. Eight positive animals in two of
Crops

Bt Corn Refuge Recommendations Could Get Easier

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The long-tern effectiveness of Bt corn in protecting crops from destructive insects hinges on preventing the bugs from developing resistance to Bt, a built-in insecticide. To avoid resistance farmers must plant the proper refugia of non-Bt corn with their Bt crop. And that’s going to get easier to do, John Gavloski, an extension entomologist with

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