Posts tagged food imports
Our inspectors can’t stop dangerous food imports
Jun 14th, 2011
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
Jun 14th, 2011
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...]
Food, beverages imported from Taiwan may contain toxic chemical: CFIA
May 30th, 2011
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 24th, 2011
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...]
Grocers mislabel foreign produce as local
Apr 26th, 2011
By Kathy Tomlinson, CBC News A major western Canadian grocery chain has been selling produce advertised as “B.C. Grown” that came from the United States or elsewhere, CBC News has found. [More...]
CFIA to name food companies, importers that break rules
Mar 17th, 2011
By Sarah Schmidt, Postmedia News The federal government is starting to out food manufacturers that run into serious trouble with its inspectors, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Wednesday. [More...]
Food imports safe, say feds
Dec 8th, 2010
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...]
Critics bite into food safety
Nov 30th, 2010
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...]
Thought for food
Oct 4th, 2010
Winnipeg Free Press Editorial Whether it is because Canadians are eating more food or growing less of it, an increasingly large proportion of the food we consume comes from other countries. This is not really anything new. Everyone knows that mangoes don’t grow in Manitoba — at least not naturally — and that kangaroo stew [...]
Conservatives defend food safety as furor grows over CFIA audit
Sep 24th, 2010
By Sarah Schmidt, PostMedia News The Conservative government on Friday defended its record on food safety after an internal audit found imported foods are sailing across the border without proper inspections to make sure they’re safe. [More...]
Audit questions imported food safety – System is ‘all over the map’ charges inspector rep.
Sep 24th, 2010
By Sarah Schmidt, PostMedia News The safety of imported foods in Canada is at risk because of multiple “deficiencies” with the federal government’s oversight system, a newly released internal audit has found. [More...]
Lax controls mean imported food might not meet Canadian standards: report
Sep 23rd, 2010
By Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press Food from other countries is coming into Canada without full assurance it meets federal safety requirements, says a newly released report. [More...]
No one minding the food import store
Sep 23rd, 2010
Ottawa (23 September 2010) Canadians worried about the safety of imported food will take no comfort from an internal audit of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s imported food safety program which condemns the Agency’s lack of a strategy, management and accountability for ensuring the foods imported into Canada are safe. According to the audit, “CFIA [...]
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
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...]
