Another listeria scare at a Toronto meat processing plant
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Carole Swan resigns
June 21, 2011 - 1:40 pm
Tags: Agriculture Union, Carole Swan, CFIA, Food Inspectors, food safety, Listeriosis, Maple Leaf Foods, Sheila Weatherill
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Ottawa (June 21, 2011) — Canadian Food Inspection Agency President Carole Swan is stepping down at the end of June, a full year ahead of the end of her appointment. “We wish Carole well. She had a tough job to do, made more difficult by chronic under funding, a reality that has prevented the CFIA [...]
Food safety: the forgotten issue?
April 20, 2011 - 3:00 pm
Tags: Agriculture Union, CFIA, Federal politics, Food Recalls, food safety, Listeria, Maple Leaf Foods, PSAC
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By David McKie, CBC.ca In the 2008 election campaign, federal party leaders vowed to make the country’s food safer. [More...]
Canadian inspection agency gets additional $100 million
March 23, 2011 - 6:45 am
Tags: CFIA, Food Inspectors, Listeria, Listeriosis, Maple Leaf Foods
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Five-year plan calls for inspector training, technological support By Sarah Schmidt, PostMedia News The Conservative government pledged Tuesday to boost spending on Canada’s food inspection system by $100 million over the next five years. [More...]
Canadian bureaucrats shirked ‘duty to assist’ with listeria information request
March 22, 2011 - 1:20 pm
Tags: Access to information, food safety, Listeria, Listeriosis, Maple Leaf Foods, Secrecy
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By Doug Powell, barfblog The 2008 listeria outbreak in Canada caused by Maple Leaf deli meats that killed 23 and sickened 56 was characterized by multiple failures amongst multiple players – primarily Maple Leaf, the Canadian government, and dieticians at assisted-care facilities. [More...]
Is this government red tape or Conservative control freakery?
January 16, 2011 - 8:32 am
Tags: CFIA, Gerry Ritz, Listeriosis, Maple Leaf Foods, Secrecy
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By Sarah Schmidt, PostMedia News Yesterday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made headlines by announcing his government’s pending war on government red tape to help small businesses (after a commission creates some paperwork of its own). [More...]
Food imports safe, say feds
December 8, 2010 - 6:05 pm
Tags: Agriculture Committee, Agriculture Union, CFIA, food imports, Food Recalls, food safety
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By Laura Payton, Toronto Sun The man in charge of making sure Canada’s food is safe says the system is effective, with audits showing almost perfect compliance for food imports. [More...]
Paperwork delays listeriosis lawsuit settlement
December 2, 2010 - 10:53 am
Tags: Food Recalls, food safety, Listeria, Listeriosis, Maple Leaf Foods
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Joanna Smith, The Toronto Star It has been nearly two years since Maple Leaf Foods agreed to compensate victims of a deadly nationwide outbreak of listeriosis linked to its deli meats, but not a single cheque has been signed. [More...]
Critics bite into food safety
November 30, 2010 - 8:21 am
Tags: CFIA, food imports, Food Recalls, food safety, PSAC
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By Laura Payton, Toronto Sun It’s hard to know whether the food you’re buying at the grocery store is safe, say critics of Canada’s food inspection system. [More...]
No audit of meat plant inspectors done: Ritz
November 18, 2010 - 5:11 pm
Tags: CFIA, Federal politics, Food Inspectors, food safety, Gerry Ritz, Listeriosis, Maple Leaf Foods, PSAC, Sheila Weatherill
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By Sarah Schmidt, PostMedia News Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz on Thursday conceded the government has not conducted an external audit to determine how many inspectors are needed to police Canada’s meat plants. [More...]
CFIA deflects food safety criticisms
November 15, 2010 - 5:24 pm
Tags: CFIA, Federal politics, food imports, Food Recalls, food safety, Listeria, Maple Leaf Foods, PSAC, Sheila Weatherill
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By Barry Wilson, The Western Producer Senior government officials responsible for food safety and inspection have a message: the system has never been better. [More...]
