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Beef up number of food inspectors: Union

Mar 17th, 2010

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By Bryn Weese, Toronto Sun Canadian food inspectors are working overtime to meet American food safety standards, a move their union calls “unsustainable.”  [More...]

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U.S. had to force Canada to beef up meat inspections: union

Mar 17th, 2010

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The Canadian Press The union representing the country’s food inspectors says Canada increased its meat-plant inspection schedule only after complaints from the United States.  [More...]

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Questions raised about gap in food inspection standards

Mar 17th, 2010

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By Gloria Galloway, Globe and Mail As investigators probe an unusual number of listeriosis cases in Ontario this year alongside a new tainted-meat recall, food inspectors have raised fresh questions about gaps between Canadian and U.S. food safety regimes.  [More...]

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U.S. regulations forcing more meat inspections in Canada

Mar 17th, 2010

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By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is scrambling to maintain an increased presence at dozens of large meat-processing plants after auditors from the United States Department of Agriculture found inspections were too infrequent to meet U.S. food-safety standards, newly released internal records show.  [More...]

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Listeriosis cases linked to deli meat

Mar 13th, 2010

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By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service Ontario’s chief medical officer confirmed Friday a genetic match between listeriosis cases and contaminated deli meat produced at a federally regulated meat plant — the first match since Canada was rocked in the summer of 2008 with a deadly outbreak.  [More...]

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Listeria spike triggers hospitalizations

Mar 13th, 2010

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By Robert Cribb, The Toronto Star Two Ontarians were hospitalized — and another two deaths are being investigated — in relation to a listeria outbreak traced to a Toronto deli meat manufacturer.  [More...]

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Video: Chris Olsen on Maple Leaf recall

Mar 10th, 2010

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Video: Inspecting Ottawa’s food inspector promise

Mar 9th, 2010

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PHANTOM TRUCKS SHOW NEW MEAT INSPECTION REGIME NOT WORKING: New Democrats Masse and Allen say safety of Canada’s food at risk

Feb 12th, 2010

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NDP Press Release WINDSOR – New Democrat Border Critic Brian Masse (Windsor-West) says disturbing new information about trucks carrying imported meats that are failing to report for inspections shows that the Harper government’s new food-safety regime simply isn’t working.[More...]

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Feeling queasy

Feb 10th, 2010

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Ottawa Citizen Editorial  It has been 18 months since 22 Canadians died after eating tainted meat and, despite government assurances that food safety systems are more effective than ever, consumers ought to be skeptical.  [More...]

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Government gets failing grade on food safety

Jan 28th, 2010

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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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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

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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 [...]

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Tainted meat linked to shortage of inspectors

May 26th, 2009

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By: Joanna Smith, Toronto Star OTTAWA – The head of the federal food inspectors’ union said an outbreak of deadly bacteria traced to ready-to-eat meats might have been prevented if the Canadian Food Inspection Agency had hired twice as many watchdogs. “I think it’s likely that it might not have happened,” Bob Kingston, president of [...]

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Few meat inspectors mean more ‘shortcuts’

May 25th, 2009

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By: Robert Cribb, Toronto Star Federal meat inspectors are each responsible for monitoring about five plants on average – a workload that makes ensuring safe food impossible, says their union. In a staffing survey to be released today, the agriculture union says it’s impossible for meat inspectors to complete minimum safety tasks in more than [...]

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CFIA admits lack of inspections at Maple Leaf plant

Apr 26th, 2009

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By: Sarah Schmidt, Vancouver Sun OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency did not conduct required in-depth audits of the Maple Leaf plant in the year leading up to the deadly listeriosis outbreak last summer. Quarterly audits were supposed to be done until December 2007 at the Toronto meat plant, but the agency confirmed Sunday [...]

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CFIA can’t track meat-inspector numbers

Mar 26th, 2009

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By: Sarah Schmidt, The Ottawa Citizen The Canadian Food Inspection Agency cannot be sure how many meat inspectors are stationed at plants across the country, according to an agency briefing note released to parliamentarians as they begin their investigation into the state of food safety. The document didn’t sit well with members of the special [...]

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Food agency can’t count staff

Mar 26th, 2009

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By: Joanna Smith, Toronto Star OTTAWA–The federal food safety watchdog told a parliamentary committee it does not know how many meat inspectors it employs eight months after a nationwide outbreak of deadly listeriosis bacteria found in ready-to-eat meats. “Given that there are a number of positions that are multi-purpose, in that they do not focus [...]

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