Archive for January, 2010

Government gets failing grade on food safety

Jan 28th, 2010

Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story

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By Christina Spencer, Parliamentary Bureau SUN News Service
OTTAWA — The union representing federal meat inspectors has given the government a failing grade for moving too slowly to boost food safety since the listeriosis outbreak of 2008 that killed at least 22 people.  [More]

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Government gets failing grade on food safety from union, consumers’ group

Jan 27th, 2010

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Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The government hasn’t improved the food-safety system six months after the fatal listeriosis outbreak, food inspectors and a consumers group said Wednesday. [More]

Food inspection agency hasn’t acted on safety recommendations: report

Jan 27th, 2010

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By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service
OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Wednesday received a failing grade from its own meat inspectors for not acting on the “vast majority” of recommendations made six months ago to improve food safety. [More]

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Federal Government gets failing grade on food safety

Jan 27th, 2010

Posted by Jim Thompson in Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ottawa – Inaction on food safety has earned the federal government a failing grade six months after the Prime Minister’s special investigator Sheila Weatherill tabled recommendations on how to prevent a repeat of the Maple Leaf Foods listeriosis outbreak which killed 22 people and sickened many more.
A mid-term report card on the government’s [...]

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