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On-Farm Food Safety Is Crucial, MPs Say

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They quarrelled on many issues, but the MPs on the Commons food safety subcommittee agreed an effective food safety system has to begin on the farm. The committee reported to Parliament in mid-June with the Conservative MPs offering 22 recommendations and the opposition parties 14 proposals. The only idea that was immediately rejected by Agriculture
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No Escape For Government Bodies In Listeria Report

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Health Canada, the Public Health Agency and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have all been cited for contributing to a breakdown in the food inspection system during last summer’s deadly listeria outbreak. To prevent a repeat of it, special investigator Sheila Weatherill proposed 57 recommendations to improve food safety. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said they
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U. S. Making Little Progress On Food Safety

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Efforts to improve food safety in the United States have “plateaued,” exposing the need for an overhaul of the nation’s food safety system, government health officials said April 9. Despite work to improve food safety in recent years, the number of foodborne infections remained steady, with little change in the past few years, suggesting fundamental
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U. S. Lawmaker Blasts China Food Safety

The United States has “serious issues” with food imports from China and needs to do more to prevent contaminated products from entering the U. S. food supply, an influential House lawmaker said March 18. At the same time, Washington needs to toughen up its own outdated food safety laws after a series of food recalls
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China Introduces New Food Safety Law

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China said March 2 that food security remains “grim” after a series of health scandals, the most recent being last year’s tainted milk formula that killed at least six toddlers and made almost 300,000 sick. A new food safety law, approved Feb. 28 in an accelerated process after the milk scandal came to light in
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New Food Safety Act introduced

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The Manitoba government is expanding its inspection regime to include inspecting facilities of food processors and distributors, including food warehouses. The new Food Safety Act, introduced last week, would give agriculture department inspectors new powers to enter these facilities and, if necessary, immediately seize and dispose of food or any else posing a food safety

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