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• January 24, 2012: Video: Food safety cuts CBC The National
• January 24, 2012: Union warns of cuts to federal food inspection By JESSICA MURPHY, London Free Press

  Almost four years after a deadly listeriosis outbreak, the union representing federal food inspectors says planned budget cuts could threaten the safety of Canada’s food [More...]

• January 24, 2012: Are Cuts to Canadian Meat Inspection a Spoiler? By Tom Sandborn, TheTyee.ca

  Is something rotten in the state of Canadian meat inspection? According to the union that represents federal food inspectors and other critics, the answer is yes.

  In August, [More...]

• January 24, 2012: Food inspection budget cuts for CFIA jeered By Canadian Cattlemen

  The union representing federal food safety inspectors plans to ask Maple Leaf Foods and other processors to lobby for a reversal in proposed cuts to the federal food [More...]

• January 24, 2012: Meat inspectors’ union warns of food-safety program cuts By CTV News

  The Conservative government’s plan to slash spending on food safety could put Canadians at risk of another crisis like the deadly listeriosis outbreak, says the federal meat inspectors’ [More...]