Ask your MP to vote for food safety

Did you know that every year 13 million Canadians – or almost half the population – get food poisoning?

Food contamination has never been so widespread, yet our ability to inspect and oversee food imports and domestic production is strained to the breaking point.

Almost nothing has been done to address the critical shortage of food safety inspectors since the listeriosis outbreak that left 22 people dead, victims of tainted Maple Leaf Foods cold cuts. This failure is even more unsettling since the Prime Minister’s own investigator concluded six months ago that this shortage was a major factor contributing to the Maple Leaf tragedy.

At FoodSafetyFirst.ca, we are giving every MP the opportunity to vote in favour of food safety.

MPs who vote in favour of food safety agree to urge the Prime Minister to fix the food inspection deficit that exposes Canadians to food safety risks that are too high.

Please send a message today to urge your MP to vote in favour of food safety.

Recent Posts:

• June 30, 2010: Meat packing plant caught fudging ‘best before’ dates By Joanna Smith, The Toronto Star

  A Toronto meat packing plant was caught fudging the “best before” dates on packages of ham about a month before it had to recall peppercorn [More...]

• June 9, 2010: Cheap meat and cruelty Victoria Times Columnist

  The way some animals are being transported to slaughter in Canada could make you sick. Not just heartsick at what appears to be careless cruelty. But physically sick.  [More...]

• June 3, 2010: Canada’s food safety lacks farm-to-fork traceability By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service

  Despite a sharpened focus on food safety in Canada after the 2008 listeriosis crisis, the quality of the country’s food-safety system remains essentially unchanged, a [More...]

• April 21, 2010: Audit Finds Tainted Meat Reaching Consumers by Helena Bottemiller Food Safety News

  Veterinary drugs, pesticides, and heavy metals are making it onto our plates via meat, according to a federal audit released this week.  [More...]

• April 21, 2010: Immediate action on food safety needs to be taken By KIRSTY DUNCAN, CAROLYN BENNETT AND WAYNE EASTER Owen Sound Sun Times

  Canadians have been fed a new vocabulary by the federal government: “global synchronized economic downturn,” “recalibration,” and “listeria outbreak.”  [More...]