Posts tagged Food Recalls

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...]

Deli meat OK for Canadians but off-limits to Americans

By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency cut off access to American markets for the Toronto plant at the centre of an ongoing listeriosis investigation connected to tainted deli meats while allowing the company to continue to produce food for Canadians, Canwest News Service has learned.  [More...]

Walkom: Tainted meat and red tape

By Thomas Walkom, Toronto Star
In theory, everyone likes getting rid of red tape. When federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced earlier this month that the Conservative government would set up a commission to do just that, many Canadians cheered.  [More...]

Minister defends food inspection system

By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz defended Canada’s food-safety system yesterday after internal records surfaced showing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is scrambling to maintain an increased presence at meat processing plants to adhere to American food-safety standards.  [More...]

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

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...]

Questions raised about gap in food inspection standards

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...]

U.S. regulations forcing more meat inspections in Canada

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...]

Another listeria scare at a Toronto meat processing plant

HVP recall poses safety questions

By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service
It sounds more like a chemical than a food ingredient and until this week most consumers had probably never heard of hydrolyzed vegetable protein – let alone realized the additive is found in thousands of processed foods.  [More...]

Listeriosis cases linked to deli meat

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...]

Listeria spike triggers hospitalizations

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...]

Canada expands recall of salmonella-tainted products

Canwest News Service
More items were added Saturday morning to a growing recall list of products that could be contaminated with salmonella after a popular flavour enhancer was found to be tainted with the bacteria last month.  [More...]

Food recalls likely to come slowly

By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service
It could take months for some food companies to figure out whether a popular flavouring ingredient contaminated with salmonella found its way into their products, industry experts say.  [More...]

Brace for massive food recall: officials

By Sarah Schmidt, Canwest News Service
Canadian consumers can likely expect an avalanche of food recalls after an ingredient used in thousands of processed foods was found to be contaminated with salmonella, government investigators said Friday.  [More...]