Alleged ‘loophole’ lets stores change best-before date
By Jon Woodward, ctvbc.ca
A consumer advocate says he’s shocked about an alleged “loophole” in Canadian law that punishes grocery stores for changing a packaged-on date on perishable foods — but allows grocery stores to change a best-before date. [More...]
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Statement by Bob Kingston, President of the Agriculture Union – PSAC
December 2, 2012 - 12:35 pm
Tags: Bob Kingston, CFIA, Gerry Ritz, meat inspection, XL Foods
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On November 29, 2012, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency claimed the Agriculture Union made false statements concerning a CFIA memo directing food inspectors working at the XL Food plant to ignore certain food safety controls for domestic meat while ensuring that those same inspection tasks were completed on meat destined for export to Japan. The [...]
Reality Check: CFIA already has authority needed to compel the production of documents
October 3, 2012 - 7:12 pm
Tags: Agriculture Union, CFIA, E. coli, Food Inspectors, Food Recalls, food safety, Gerry Ritz, Sheila Weatherill, Walkerton, XL Foods
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Ottawa (October 3, 2012) Just before the Minister’s staff gave him the hook at a news conference in Calgary today, CFIA President George Da Pont said the food safety agency did not have the authority to compel the immediate production of documents from XL Foods. Not so. See Section 13 of the Meat Inspection Act: [...]
Reality Check: Government statement about the number of new food inspectors is nonsense
October 3, 2012 - 3:52 pm
Tags: Agriculture Union, CFIA, E. coli, Food Inspectors, Food Recalls, food safety, Gerry Ritz, PSAC, XL Foods
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Ottawa (October 3, 2012) – Yesterday in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harper said: “Mr. Speaker, as soon as the information about the contamination (at XL Foods) first became available on September 4, the agency acted to contain contaminated product, and it has been acting ever since then. To be clear, as I just [...]
Canadians kept in the dark for days after US border closed to XL Food products
September 26, 2012 - 8:33 am
Tags: Agriculture Union, CFIA, E. coli, Food Recalls, food safety, Gerry Ritz, USDA, XL Foods
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Ottawa (September 26, 2012) – United States authorities closed the border to products from the E. coli 0157:H7-tainted XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alberta days before Canadian consumers were advised and a product recall was launched in Canada. According to a bulletin from the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the United States Department of [...]
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 [...]
Our inspectors can’t stop dangerous food imports
June 14, 2011 - 9:16 am
Tags: Agriculture Union, CFIA, E. coli, food imports, Food Inspectors, food safety, PSAC
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By Bob Kingston, Ottawa Citizen The Canadian Food Inspection Agency might be trying hard to protect Canadian consumers from unsafe imported food. But, the simple fact is the agency is too broke to keep such products from store shelves. Canada’s import food inspection is a patchwork that ignores some products, while others are examined, with [...]
Apples top list of most pesticide-laden fruit
June 14, 2011 - 8:52 am
Tags: CFIA, E. coli, food imports, fruiits and vegetables, pesticides
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By CTV.ca News Staff The old saying that an apple a day keeps the doctor away may need an asterisk, in the wake of a new report says some of the most popular produce contains the highest levels of pesticides. [More...]
Briefing Note: Has a secret deal scuttled food inspection investment?
June 1, 2011 - 11:35 am
Tags: Agriculture Union, CFIA, Federal Budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Food Inspectors, food safety, PSAC
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Ottawa (June 1, 2011) – Finance Minister Flaherty’s March 22nd budget included an investment to bolster food inspection of $100 million over five years, right? Well, maybe not. According to sources within the CFIA, a secret deal to win mention in the March 2011 budget that will be re-tabled next week may actually result in [...]
Food, beverages imported from Taiwan may contain toxic chemical: CFIA
May 30, 2011 - 6:26 am
Tags: CFIA, food imports, food safety
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By Sarch Schmidt, PostMedia News Food and drink products from Taiwan tainted with a toxic chemical may have found their way into Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned Sunday as a local food-safety scandal goes global. [More...]
Feces in imported food from less developed countries a rising concern: scientist
May 24, 2011 - 7:18 am
Tags: CFIA, food imports, Food Inspectors, food safety
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By Derek Abma, PostMedia News Importing food from less developed countries increasingly leads to people literally eating more crap, according to scientists in the United States. [More...]
February 13, 2011 - 1:08 pm
Changing the best before dates is absolutely not acceptable. This practice is being conducted by food store employees, acting sometimes on very limited knowledge of various food spoilage factors. The consumer must be protected over the interest of a bit of extra profit.