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B. C. Cattle Found With Brucellosis

The Canadian government’s food regulator has placed animals on two farms under quarantine in the Pacific Coast province of British Columbia after U. S. testing found three cows were carrying brucellosis, a contagious bacterial disease that can cause abortions, weakened offspring an infertility in animals. Three beef cows from the farms were found carrying the
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CFIA Gets A Chief Food Safety Officer

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The Canadian government is creating a position of chief food safety officer and named Brian Evans, currently executive vice-president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to the post effective June 28. Evans will remain chief veterinary officer. The May 25 announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper also said that George Da Pont, currently commissioner
Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Red Tape Hurts Farm Competitiveness

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Aparl iamentary committee recommends major changes to federal regulations that disadvantage Canada’s farmers against their global competitors. If implemented, the recommendations in a recently tabled House of Commons agriculture committee report could go a long way toward dealing with farmers’ complaints that government fees and red tape make them uncompetitive in the marketplace. In all,
Opinion

CFIA’s Powers Have A Long Reach

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ACanadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) inspector stopped at a farm and talked with the old farmer: “I’m here to inspect your farm.” The old farmer replied, “You better not go in that field.” The CFIA inspector replied in a solemn tone, “You don’t seem to understand. I have the authority of the federal government with
Opinion

Letters – for May. 20, 2010

Will taxpayers pay for hog barn cleanup? As I read about “Empty Hog Barns Tumbling Down” in the May 6 Manitoba Co-operator, I again began to wonder who is going to foot all the bills for the decommissioning and cleanup costs of the manure storage facilities, those outside and inside the barns. When I previously
News, Oilseeds

Manitoba Flax Growers Turn Thumbs Down On Bill C-474

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The Manitoba Flax Growers Association (MFGA) has decided it won’t support Bill C-474, a private member’s bill that would require market impact be considered before approving the release of new genetically modified (GM) crops in Canada. “It is a difficult issue,” MFGA president Eric Fridfinnson said in an interview May 6, the day after the
Crops, Oilseeds

Field Testing For A New GM Flax Is Put On Hold

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We’re not going to do anything that’s illicit. But I think research has to go on.” – RANDALL WESELAKE AUniversity of Alberta researcher has bowed to pressure from the flax industry and cancelled plans to conduct plot trials on a genetically modified flax this spring. Randall Weselake, the University of Alberta professor developing the new
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Liberals Propose National Food Policy

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Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has served up a five-point National Food Policy with entrees for both consumers and farmers on the menu. Speaking on a farm just north of Toronto in late April, Ignatieff said a Liberal government would work toward making more homegrown food available, while pulling the farm sector back from the financial
Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Raw Milk Targeted By Regulators

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Legal action in Ontario and British Columbia to reinforce bans against raw milk sales has won support from the Dairy Processors Association of Canada. “Human consumption of raw milk was one of the major sources of foodborne illnesses and a cause of infant mortality before pasteurization became widely utilized,” DPAC said in a statement. “Dairy
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

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