Archive for June, 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 salami when samples tested positive for potentially deadly bacteria.  [More...]

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...]

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 newly published ranking concludes.  [More...]