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Country Crossroads

Local food workshop fields anxious questions

Workshops hosted by MAFRD fields questions on regulation by those selling at farmers’ markets and farm gate

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Can homemade salsa be sold at a farmers’ market? What is a ‘potentially hazardous food?’ Which farmers’ markets need handwashing facilities? Public health inspectors fielded those questions and more at a recent workshop here for local food vendors. Several participants said they haven’t known where to go for answers until now. “There’s a lot of
Opinion

Rules and reality

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It’s hard not to have a soft spot for farm families attempting to participate in the local food movement. For one thing, they put a fresh face on farming, as many are younger than the greying statistical demographic of Canadian farmers. That said, it’s much easier to partake in a 100-mile diet living on the
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Direct-farm-marketing initiative suffers growing pains

Pooling deliveries of ungraded eggs and 
uninspected chicken won’t be allowed

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Thirteen southwestern Manitoba families who banded together to deliver their farm produce to Winnipeg customers have found themselves on the wrong side of provincial food safety regulations. The Harvest Moon Local Food Initiative, which has seen its direct-to-customer sales grow to about $120,000 annually since 2008, has been told to stop delivering ungraded eggs or
Woman making proscuitto
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Pilot Mound prosciutto makers start over

Dried meat seizure off the farm last summer brought a simmering debate to a boil

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Six months after food inspectors raided their on-farm meat shop and seized their award-winning prosciutto, a Pilot Mound couple has learned all charges against them have been dropped. Clint and Pam Cavers, whose old-world-style sausage earned top honours at the Great Manitoba Food Fight last year, have also been given the green light to go
Livestock

Meat industry singled out for new penalties

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The Canadian meat industry was surprised by an out-of-the-blue announcement by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that it is being singled out for a financial penalty regime for food safety infractions. Jim Laws, president of the Canadian Meat Council, says the agency had said the administrative monetary penalty system (AMPs) would be introduced to the
CFIA flubs food failure followup
Beef cattle, Livestock

CFIA flubs food failure followup

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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
Report cites concerns related to the “normalization” of processed and packaged foods” and concerns that the next generation’s food choices will be limited because they lack confidence to prepare food.  photo: thinkstock
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New report says improved food literacy key to a healthier life

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Conference Board of Canada says too many people can’t understand nutrition labels, 
make a meal in their kitchen, or stick to a food budget to reduce waste

Improved food literacy would improve the health of Canadian adults and children, says a new report from the Conference Board of Canada. The number of books, television programs and websites dedicated to food — not to mention diets — continue to multiply, but our understanding of food isn’t necessarily getting better, says the 46-page report.
Jeff Clark is urging producers to look into traceability requirements sooner rather than later. Photo: Shannon VanRaes
Hogs, Livestock

And this little piggy goes to…? New traceability program on the way

Few producers are currently using PigTrace, but officials are urging them to become familiar with the system

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It’s coming, so you might as well prepare. PigTrace — a nationwide traceability initiative — is expected to come into force on July 1, 2014, following changes to the federal Health of Animals Regulation. But so far, pork producers aren’t jumping on board. “The compliance rate across Canada is pretty low — no one is
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Other livestock

With big U.S. pork buy and diet shift, China now asks: ‘Where’s the Beef?’

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With more money in their pockets, millions of Chinese are seeking a richer diet and switching to beef, driving imports to record levels and sending local meat firms abroad to scout for potential acquisition targets among beef farmers and processors. The need to feed the world’s most populous nation has seen Chinese firms gobble up
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Livestock

CFIA beefs up food safety rules and sets minimum traceability standards

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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

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