Saskatchewan has extended consultation on its food safety regulation amendments after an outcry about egg grading requirements.
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Sask. food safety changes won’t include farm eggs
The province’s health minister said farm eggs can be sold at farmers’ markets after concern they would be caught up in new requirements
Fines rise for uninspected meat sales
Alberta meat industry applauds larger fines for illegal slaughter that will help maintain trust in food safety
Alberta livestock producers and abattoir operators are applauding a move to increase penalties for illegal livestock slaughter and sale of uninspected meat in the province. Doug Roxburgh, a beef producer from Rimbey and current vice-chair of Alberta Beef Producers, said the changes show support for Alberta’s livestock industries. “Alberta beef producers stand behind stronger penalties […] Read more
Public reaction muted to recent plant-based milk recall
Consumers haven’t turned away from products despite a listeria outbreak that caused three deaths and 20 hospitalizations
WINNIPEG — Arlee Jones of Winnipeg describes her household as a “dairy family,” but she does use almond milk and adds it to coffee because she likes the flavour. After learning of this summer’s recall of certain brands of plant-based milk due to cases of listeriosis, the mother of two girls, aged 10 and 7, […] Read more
Non-tariff trade barriers should keep Britain out of CPTPP
Some things you let slide. And some things you just can’t let slip by. When it comes to the safety and quality of Canada’s food products and system, there is no way Canada should allow the United Kingdom to play sleazy games with access to the British market if it wants to join the Comprehensive […] Read more
Feds say U.K. market access work continues
The federal government said it continues to work on technical issues that keep Canadian beef and pork out of the United Kingdom. In an emailed statement, Agriculture Canada said bilateral discussions are taking place even as members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership welcome the U.K. as the 12th member. Earlier this […] Read more
Software seen as way to ease food safety rule compliance
A Calgary software company says its new analytics software will help farmers make data-driven decisions using information gathered for food safety regulation compliance. “It helps them to correlate any kind of quality outcome, good or bad, for all the variables leading up to it,” said Kevin Davies, chief marketing officer at Provision Analytics, of the […] Read more
Gene edited crops are safe: Health Canada
UPDATED: March 26, 2021 – 1425 CST – adds audio comments from Erin Gowriluk, executive director of the Grain Growers of Canada Health Canada has declared that gene-edited crops are safe. On March 25, the department launched a public consultation for what it’s calling a “Proposed new guidance pieces for the Novel Foods Regulation, focused […] Read more
Will the COVID crisis cause a food revolution?
Innovative technologies are waiting on the shelf, but will they finally be embraced?
There’s been lots of blather about exciting food and agriculture industry technological innovations. “Smart” everything has been talked about for more than a decade. My newspaper has published dozens of stories about the possibilities of blockchain. The “internet of things” is a term buzzing away at every farm and ag conference out there. But it’s […] Read more
Year-old food rules receive praise
Cancellation of an Ontario meat processor’s licence under the regulations has created capacity shortages in the province
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency conducted 3,306 investigations between Jan. 15, 2019, when new food regulations came into force, and Jan. 8, 2020. New regulations, focused on prevention and aimed at allowing for faster removal of unsafe food from the marketplace, are largely praised one year after being introduced. Replacing 14 existing commodity-based food regulations, […] Read more
Salad mix recalled
The Fresh Express brand of a chopped sunflower salad mix is being recalled on suspicion of contamination with E. coli 0157:H7. It may be connected with illnesses reported in the United States from romaine lettuce. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced the updated recall Dec. 12. The product may have been distributed nationally, but is […] Read more
