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A customer shops at a pork meat hall at the Yuegezhuang wholesale market in Beijing on June 17, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Tingshu Wang)

Food exporters to China asked to declare produce coronavirus-free

Declaration puts onus on exporters for product safety

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News June 19, 2020

Beijing | Reuters — China’s customs authority has asked food exporters to the country to sign a declaration their produce is not contaminated by the novel coronavirus, three people who received a letter said on Friday. The declaration, seen by Reuters, may be an effort by China to reduce the additional testing it has carried

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COVID testing site opens in Brandon

HEALTH: Two more cases of the virus confirmed outside of Winnipeg

By Geralyn Wichers March 18, 2020

A dedicated testing site for COVID-19 has opened in Brandon. The site opened in the morning of March 18, according to an announcement from the province. The testing site is at the Nurses Residence Gymnasium at the Brandon Regional Health Centre and will be open seven days per week, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Not everyone

SGS’s cereals lab in Guelph at its official opening in 2016. (SGS.com)

Crops

Inspections group SGS to slim workforce

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff July 18, 2019

Geneva | Reuters — Swiss inspections group SGS plans to trim its workforce by 2,000 across about 120 countries in a process of natural attrition rather than sudden cuts or corporate restructuring, company spokesman Daniel Rufenacht said on Thursday. CEO Frankie Ng was earlier quoted by Swiss newspapers Handelszeitung and Tribune de Geneve as saying

A macrophage (immune response) cell in early stages of infection with African swine fever virus, magnified about 1,000x. (Keith Weller photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock

U.S. to begin testing sick and dead pigs for African swine fever

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek May 16, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture within weeks will begin testing sick and dead pigs for a hog virus that has killed herds across Asia in an effort to minimize devastation if the disease enters the United States, the agency said on Thursday. Increased testing aims to help U.S. officials detect cases

Hogs, Livestock

Pigs could soon move off Alberta’s PED-infected farm

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff February 7, 2019

The first, and so far only, Alberta hog farm to catch porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) could see animal shipments restart on a supervised basis “in the coming week.” The provincial ag ministry on Thursday said its investigation of the PED case, discovered Jan. 3 at a 400-head farrow-to finish operation, “continues to suggest that the

This file photo shows a rack of blood samples being tested for bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand dairy cattle. (Lakeview_Images/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff December 21, 2018

Updated, Dec. 24 — Some cattle in Saskatchewan are now under federally imposed movement controls as testing for bovine tuberculosis expands to 14 domestic herds in three provinces. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Friday the tracing of a single case of bovine TB in a beef cow from a farm in British Columbia’s southern

Beef cattle, Livestock

Six more cattle herds to be tested in TB probe

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff December 17, 2018

Updated, Dec. 20 — Cattle from four more herds in British Columbia and two in Alberta are now being tested for bovine tuberculosis as officials probe the country’s latest domestic case of the disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday reported the six herds are now under “movement controls” while TB testing is underway.

Saskatchewan farm truckers exempt on new training rule

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News December 6, 2018

Saskatchewan semi truck drivers driving only for farming operations will get a pass on the province’s planned new mandatory minimum trucker training requirements. The province announced Monday it will require a minimum of 121.5 hours of training before a driver can obtain a Class 1 commercial driver’s licence, starting March 15 next year. A Class

Wheat being loaded onto a cargo ship in Vancouver in 2011. (File photo: Reuters/Ben Nelms)

Crops, Markets

Wheat shipment halt seen as temporary

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News June 23, 2018

Wheat sales are expected to soon resume to Japan and South Korea. Both nations suspended Canadian wheat imports following the June 15 announcement that Canada had discovered several genetically modified (GM) wheat plants in southern Alberta. But both are expected to come back to the market shortly, while exports to others won’t be affected, according

Beef cattle, Livestock

Bovine TB probe’s on-farm testing work complete

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff December 19, 2017

On-farm testing work has wrapped on all the cattle herds that supplied animals in the past five years to an Alberta herd that turned up six cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in the fall of 2016. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported Tuesday it has completed on-farm testing of those “trace-in” herds, which include

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Tag Archives testing

Food exporters to China asked to declare produce coronavirus-free

COVID testing site opens in Brandon

Inspections group SGS to slim workforce

U.S. to begin testing sick and dead pigs for African swine fever

Pigs could soon move off Alberta’s PED-infected farm

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

Six more cattle herds to be tested in TB probe

Saskatchewan farm truckers exempt on new training rule

Wheat shipment halt seen as temporary

Bovine TB probe’s on-farm testing work complete

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