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Canada avoids funny honey from China

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“We don’t want the honey name to be tarnished.” – GUY CHARTIER, BEE MAID HONEY An international wave of fraudulently disguising, repackaging and reselling honey imported from China appears to be bypassing Canada. Canada’s federal honey regulations and monitoring programs are keeping illegal, adulterated and contaminated honey out of the country, according to the Canadian
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Horse VD imported into Canada

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Canada’s horse industry has been asked to halt imports of U. S. breeding stock, embryos and semen while inspectors check farms that may have used semen infected with an equine venereal disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Dec. 24 confirmed that farms in Ontario and Alberta received semen this spring from one of
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Wily McCain settles class-action suits

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Michael H. McCain is a wily strategist. First, as president and chief executive officer of Maple Leaf Foods Inc., he made a big deal of dismissing advice from the company’s lawyers and accountants to not admit any liability for Canada’s most notorious case of food poisoning last summer. He won praise from business reporters and
Beef cattle, Hogs, News

Minimal risk seen from Irish pork dioxins

Consumers eating average amounts of Irish pork with 10 per cent contamination by cancer-causing dioxins should not have concerns for their health, the EU’s leading food safety agency said Dec. 10. In response to a request by the European Commission, the Italy-based European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said it had examined several exposure scenarios for
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CFIA spending freeze boosts food safety risks: union

The union representing federal food safety inspectors warns that a planned spending freeze will compromise food safety, “making a dangerous situation worse.” The Agriculture Union-PSAC on Friday released the text of what it says is a memo from Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) senior management outlining cost-saving measures, such as directing staff to “defer, scale
Cereals, News

Throne speech light on details for farmers

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“We will invest billions of dollars in renewable energy sources, including biofuels, wind, solar, geothermal and tidal power.” – Prime Minister Stephen Harper Agriculture got more mention than usual in the throne speech and the first remarks by Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the start of the new Parliament last week, but with scant few
Cereals, News

Unregistered wheats back on agenda

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“We want to open it up for discussion because that exemption from variety registration is available for all other crop kinds, in all others parts of Canada (except the CWB designated area).” – Michael Scheffel Earlier this year Western Canada’s wheat industry flatly rejected a federal government proposal to allow farmers to import and grow
Beef cattle, Opinion

Food irradiation’s time has come

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Irradiation shouldn’t replace good manufacturing practices but can be an important step in the right direction. Well, it’s been quite a summer. Who would have thought just a few months ago that food safety would be front and centre as a federal election issue, or that obscure people who work for universities would suddenly emerge
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Food agency picks advisory panel

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“We didn’t meet the expectations of Canadians in dealing with listeria and that has had a profound effect on the CFIA.” – Brian Evans, Canadian Food Inspection Agency Executive Vice-President The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is turning to outside experts for advice in battling food safety threats. It has named four academics to an advisory

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