Products Of Ottawa, 2009-10 Edition – for Sep. 2, 2010

The third session of the 40th Parliament is adjourned until Sept. 20. What are the changes to federal food law since last summer? Here is a brief selection: CFIA MINISTERIAL ADVISORY BOARD Following up on the recommendation of its listeria investigator, on March 31, 2010, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz finally announced he intends to proceed


Letters – for Sep. 2, 2010

Improving animal welfare a worthy priority Ron Glaser of the Beef Information Centre, is correct when he says in the Aug. 26Manitoba Co-operatorthat the consumer hasn’t abandoned animal products in general. I am not sure who participated in his survey but I gotta tell you that for health reasons my household has definitely reduced its

CFIA On Clone Watch – for Sep. 2, 2010

Aclaim that Canadian farms are importing embryos with cloned cow genetics has inspectors here watching the outcome of a U. K. investigation. Britain’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) is investigating allegations of unauthorized sales of meat, processed from Holsteins alleged to be born from embryos taken from a U. S. clone. Meat and products from clones’


In Brief… – for Aug. 26, 2010

Correction:To vote in Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) elections you must be a producer (actual producer or interested party) of one of the seven major grains listed in the act. That has been the case since 1998 when the election of CWB directors was introduced. What ministerial orders changed in the 2006 and 2008 CWB elections

No More Runny Egg Yolks For U. S. Consumers – for Aug. 26, 2010

WASHINGTON/REUTERS The U. S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner said Aug. 23 there may be more recalls of eggs in the salmonella outbreak and the agency did not yet know how the eggs and chickens were contaminated. “We don’t know exactly how the contamination got into the chicken population, into the egg population, and we’re


Fall Feeder Run Has Begun – for Aug. 26, 2010

The week that ended Aug. 20 was a much busier one for Man-itoba auction marts, as cattle numbers begin to pick up in anticipation of the annual fall run. The Ashern auction mart reopened after its summer break, while most others which had been operating on a biweekly basis, are now returning to their regular

Scholarship In Honour Of Cam Brown – for Aug. 26, 2010

An agricultural scholarship has been created in honour of Cam Brown, whose long and varied career in agriculture was recently recognized by his induction into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame (MAHF). This new scholarship, to be administered by the Red River Exhibition Foundation (RREF), resulted from a $20,000 donation by T. K. Stan Cheung,


Food Strategy Off To A Promising Start – for Aug. 26, 2010

Buoyed by positive responses from agriculture ministers and the food industry, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture is plowing ahead with the development of its National Food Strategy. The idea for the strategy was first presented to the federal and provincial agriculture ministers during the 2009 CFA round table meeting, says Garnet Etsell, the organization’s first

Supper-In-The-Field 2010 – for Aug. 26, 2010

A taste of the Parklands I seldom turn down a dinner invitation, but it’s taken Parkland Tourism all of seven years to find me seated under their big white tent in Riding Mountain National Park for a very special meal. That’s how many years they’ve been serving a “Supper-in-the-Field,” a sumptuous late-summer event established to