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Ranchers see no promise in premises ID

Fearing they are the target, not TB, some ranchers refuse to comply with premises ID

By Daniel Winters April 22, 2014

A handful of ranchers in the Riding Mountain Eradication Area are balking at a provincial bid to use premises identification and ear tags to help with surveillance for bovine tuberculosis — even if it results in less on-farm testing. Rossburn-area rancher Rodney Checkowski wonders if the actual intent is to drive him and some of

News

Line up private field crop inspection services early

A 109-year-old system is changing in just 18 months and nobody knows how smoothly it will go

By Allan Dawson February 13, 2014

Seed growers should make arrangements early with the company they want to inspect their pedigreed seed crops this year. “The key message is seed growers and (inspection) service providers need to be getting together over the next two to three months and nailing down the service agreement or arrangement for 2014,” Dale Adolphe, executive director

Beef cattle, Livestock

CFIA flubs food failure followup

By Alex Binkley December 4, 2013

Canada’s auditor general has identified weaknesses in how the Canadian Food Inspection Agency manages recalls of contaminated foods and its followups with processors to prevent further incidents. “While illnesses were contained in the recalls we examined, I am not confident that the system will always yield similar results,” Auditor General Michael Ferguson said in his

Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

No greener pastures for beef producers in Europe

By Ryan Lijdsman, Troy Media November 20, 2013

The phrase “game changer” is bandied around to describe everything from public policy to hockey players. And while the Canada-EU free trade agreement actually is a “game changer,” it will not be the saviour of the beef industry. It may, in fact, lead to a complete restructuring of our beef industry, eliminate smaller producers and

Opinion

Raw milk cheese: Another sterile debate

By Ronald Doering November 14, 2013

On Sept. 18 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed one person had died and several people in B.C. and Alberta were ill from eating E. coli-contaminated raw milk cheese produced at a B.C. farm. As soon as the recall was announced, the media went into full frenzy and the usual “debate” about the safety of

Dairy farmer Lisa Dyck launched a line of hand-crafted ice creams made from milk from the dairy farm she and her husband own between Beausejour and Anola. photo: lorraine stevenson

Dairy cattle, News

Made-in-Manitoba ice cream flying off store shelves

By Lorraine Stevenson July 4, 2013

Customers are happily forking over between $11 and $12  for a litre of this premium, made-in-Manitoba ice cream

Lisa Dyck is going lickity split as summer arrives, ramping up production of a cool treat Manitobans haven’t tasted in a long time — made-in-Manitoba ice cream. This spring the Anola-area dairy producer launched Cornell Creme, a premium ice cream made from the milk of the 120 cows that she and husband William Dyck milk.

Livestock

CFIA beefs up food safety rules and sets minimum traceability standards

By Alex Binkley June 19, 2013

Food companies and farms selling products in other provinces or internationally will need detailed preventive control plans

Traceability will gain a more prominent place on the menu, and food companies will be required to develop preventive control plans under a new regulatory plan proposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The proposals, which follow the passage of the Safe Food for Canadians Act last fall, still have to be put into the

Beef cattle, Livestock

CFIA hands over anthrax control to provincial authorities

By Daniel Winters June 19, 2013

Manitoba’s Office of the Chief Veterinarian is moving in as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency pulls out of the anthrax business. The agency announced last fall it would be handing over responsibility to provincial authorities, saying the endemic presence of anthrax in some areas means eradication is not feasible. It wants its staff to focus

Livestock

Ritz again vows to boost food safety inspections

By Alex Binkley June 12, 2013

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is promising major changes following the release of a scathing report into last year’s contaminated beef fiasco at XL Foods. But critics say they’ve heard that before, and that the federal government still has a long way to go to fulfil the recommendations of an inquiry into a deadly food poisoning

Crops

Manitoba food advocates give new ‘local’ definition thumbs up

By Lorraine Stevenson June 5, 2013

The new name for local is ‘provincial.’ Until recently, only food grown within 50 kilometres of where it was sold qualified as local, but under a new interim ruling issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, any food grown in a province can legally be called ‘local food.’ (Food sold across a provincial border must

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Tag Archives Food Inspection Agency

Ranchers see no promise in premises ID

Line up private field crop inspection services early

CFIA flubs food failure followup

No greener pastures for beef producers in Europe

Raw milk cheese: Another sterile debate

CFIA beefs up food safety rules and sets minimum traceability standards

CFIA hands over anthrax control to provincial authorities

Ritz again vows to boost food safety inspections

Manitoba food advocates give new ‘local’ definition thumbs up

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