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Own-Use Task Force Accused Of Foot-Dragging

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“I don’t think there’s any way around this one.” – DR. CATHERINE DEWEY, ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE A federal task force has been criticized for not asking Ottawa to close a legal loophole allowing livestock producers to import unapproved veterinary drugs virtually unrestricted. Instead, the task force calls for a three-year pilot project into the feasibility
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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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FDA Tries To Get Ahead Of Food Recalls

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Not a single person was diagnosed with food poisoning, but the U. S. Food and Drug Administration made the move anyway – on March 31 it announced a nationwide recall of pistachios after salmonella was found in one producer’s 2008 crop. Since then, recall announcements have come daily, for a total of 290 so far.
News, Poultry

Bird Flu Fears Halt Poultry Exports From Kentucky

Ecuador and Taiwan became the latest countries to halt imports of poultry meat from Kentucky following a suspected case of the non-lethal strain of bird flu, the U. S. Agriculture Department said April 8. Russia, the top importer of U. S. chicken meat, stopped shipments of fresh and frozen poultry from the state last week.
Opinion

Wetlands vital to nutrient management

The Government of Manitoba’s March 25 throne speech includes a statement identifying more research being undertaken to reduce nutrient loading into Lake Winnipeg. This comes at the right time as Ducks Unlimited Canada’s (DUC) new water quality research in the Broughton’s Creek watershed in southwest Manitoba shows the need to assist landowners as a critical
Livestock

Grocer Calls For Heightened Food Inspections

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The U. S. Agriculture Department should expand its risk-based inspection system to focus on products neglected by the Food and Drug Administration to help stop a rash of massive food recalls, an official from a U. S. grocery chain said on April 2. The U. S. food supply system is under fire after a series
Crops, Forages

Invite The “Good Guys” Over For Compost Tea

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Conventional agriculture’s overwhelming focus on chemistry is fundamentally flawed, according to Matthew George, a lab director with Soil Foodweb Canada. By neglecting the important role played by soil biology, chemically dependent farming tries to supply the entire scope of a plant’s nutrient needs through artificial means, effectively bypassing natural processes. The result, he said, is
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Food Safety Study Snarled

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A Commons subcommittee set up to examine last year’s listeria outbreak and the state of food safety in Canada choked on a large helping of politics during its first meeting March 25. The formation of the subcommittee was agreed to more than a month ago by the Commons agriculture committee fuelled by the opposition’s apprehension
Opinion, Poultry

Debating Feed Contamination And Foodborne Illness Links

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Whether animal feed contaminated by salmonella or E. coli 0157:H7 contributes to the overall burden of food-borne illness in humans is a contentious issue. In a letter March 26 to The Manitoba Co-operator, Graham Cooper, executive director of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada indicated that the Canadian feed industry has adopted measures to prevent
Livestock, Other livestock

Parks Canada Proceeds With Selected Elk Cull

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“Their commitment to start removing animals is really positive.” – RAY ARMBRUSTER, CHAIR OF MCPA ANIMAL HEALTH COMMITTEE. Parks Canada has begun the removal of an increased number of suspect elk and deer from an area of Riding Mountain National Park that has had the highest TB infection rates. “TB Alley” along the Birdtail River

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