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Quest Continues For Local Organic Certification

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“They trust us. That’s a lot more than a piece of paper.” – CINDY MURRAY, ORGANIC FARMER Incoming rules that make using the word “organic” to describe how she farms off limits unless she is certified won’t change how Minnedosa-area farmer Cindy Murray operates. She and husband Doug Proven plan to go right on farming
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MPs To Probe Listeria Outbreak

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The Commons agriculture committee has agreed to establish an inquiry into last summers listeria outbreak that killed 20 and sickened more than 50 others. A motion by NDP Farm Critic Alex Atamanenko to launch the inquiry was backed by the other parties including the Conservatives after it was broadened to include an examination of how
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B. C.’s latest bird flu is H5N2

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The avian influenza that led federal inspectors to cull, gas and compost about 60,000 birds on a Fraser Valley poultry farm in British Columbia is subtype H5N2, and likely low in pathogenicity. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Feb. 3 that tests at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases in Winnipeg confirm the H5
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CFIA under fire over plant and meat inspection

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“The agency lacks an effective, integrated risk-management approach to plant and plant product imports.” – Sheila Fraser, Auditor General Last week was a rough one for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency with the auditor general criticizing it and a group of veterinarians suing it. Auditor General Sheila Fraser released a report faulting the way CFIA
Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Feb. 5, 2009

New legislation has far-reaching implications Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk has recently announced that under the new Food Safety Act all food premises in the province of Manitoba will have to be licensed. She wants to start with livestock and move her way down to fruits and veggies. I have read these
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B. C. bird flu cull wraps up

A cull of about 60,000 birds on a B. C. poultry farm, where an H5 strain of avian flu was recently found, is now complete, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Jan. 28. The birds were euthanized using carbon dioxide and their carcasses are being composted inside the barns, and temperatures are being monitored to
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Bill 13 detailed at ag days

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Brandon Other provinces will be watching Manitoba as a new provincial law, restricting claims of “organic” strictly to certified growers and processors, comes into effect June 30. Manitoba’s own legislation, Bill 13: The Organic Agricultural Products Act (OAP) takes effect on the same day as the new federal Organic Products Regulations (OPR) becomes mandatory. The
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Grain revenue helps CN’s Q4:

A 23 per cent increase in fourth-quarter grain and fertilizer revenue helped Canadian National Railway (CN) offset higher operating and tax expenses.CN’soverall Q4 profit was $573 million on $2.2 billion in revenue, down 31 per cent from the year-earlier period. Full-year 2008 profit was down 12 per cent at $1.9 billion on $8.5 billion in
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“Low-path” bird flu found in B. C.

An H5 strain of avian flu has been confirmed on a commercial turkey farm in southern British Columbia’s Fraser River valley, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Saturday. “Tests to date indicate that the strain of AI in this case is low pathogenic,” the agency said in a release. “Further testing is underway to confirm
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Listeria investigator announced

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It took almost four months but Prime Minister Stephen Harper has got someone to investigate the Maple Leaf Foods listeria outbreak of last summer. Just how Sheila Weatherill, former president and CEO of Capital Health in Edmonton, will investigate the outbreak that killed 20 and sickened at least 50 more may be a secret until

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