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Dairy cattle, Livestock

Dairy Industry Mulls New Approach To Food Safety

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Dealing with actual threats to food safety rather than perceived ones is the goal of the Canadian dairy industry following a special conference that brought together processors and producers. While dairy products have an enviable safety record, the industry wants to make risk assessment a bigger part of the internationally recognized HACCP approach it employs
Livestock

Horticulture Implements Food Safety Measures

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Fruit and vegetable growers have a new certified food safety program that the Canadian Horticultural Council hopes will lead to an increase in exports. CHC has offered an on-farm food safety program for several years and has decided to rename it CanadaGAP to highlight the certified feature for the production, storage and packing of fresh
Livestock

Essential Oils Tested For Disease-Fighting Qualities

Oils derived from cinnamon and cloves do more than taste and smell good – they can also fight foodborne diseases, such as E. coli and salmonella, researchers are discovering. This natural ability of some ancient natural oils – from geraniums, cloves, wild oregano, cinnamon and thyme, for example – offers promise in finding alternatives to
News, Poultry

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 At the same time, Washington needs to toughen up its own outdated food safety laws after a series of food recalls
Cereals, Crops

U. K. Miller Offers High Praise For CWB, Canadian Wheat

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Small packages of a white powdery substance are quietly entering the U. S. from Canada on a regular basis. It’s the good stuff – primo, in fact. But it’s not cocaine or heroin. Nope, it’s flour milled from Western Canadian Red Spring wheat, considered the best in the world. And the “mules” hauling it south
News

Clearer Rules For Food Safety At Farmers’ Markets

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“It can be something as simple as going to your local church hall or community centre. Chances are they have a place that we issue a permit to.” – MIKE LEBLANC, MANAGER OF THE HEALTH PROTECTION UNIT WITH MANITOBA HEALTH More perogis and pumpkin pies may turn up for sale at farmers’ markets this year
Livestock

U. S. Finalizes Ban On Cattle Too Sick To Walk

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Cattle too sick or injured to walk will no longer be allowed to enter U. S. slaughterhouses, the Agriculture Department said in a rule finalized March 14, nearly a year after the largest meat recall in American history spurred the change. The USDA proposed a total ban on all “downer” cattle from being slaughtered in
Livestock

Maple Leaf Steps Up Its Battle With Listeria

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“If one of our facilities doesn’t find it during regular testing, we would audit them to make sure their testing was thorough enough.” – MAPLE LEAF FOOD SAFETY OFFICER RANDY HUFFMAN Maple Leaf Foods is tackling listeria on several fronts in its 27 Canadian food plants to try to keep the wily bacteria out of
Dairy cattle, Livestock, Poultry

China Warns Of WTO Challenge On Poultry

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“Frankly, we’re not opposed to China seeking relief from the WTO, and we wish them success” – JIM SUMNER, USA POULTRY AND EGG EXPORT COUNCIL China said March 11 that it plans to file a complaint at the World Trade Organization about a U. S. law, renewed this month, that blocks imports of Chinese poultry
Livestock, Poultry

Salmonella Insurance Soon Available For Egg Farmers

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Anew program to insure Canada’s egg industry against the effects of Salmonella enteritidis (Se) should be ready this spring. The program, expected to be ready April 1, will compensate egg farmers for economic losses stemming from Se in their operations. It will also extend to hatcheries, Manitoba egg producers were told at their recent annual

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