In the 2008 election campaign, federal party leaders vowed to make the country’s food safer. [More...]

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...]

It has been nearly two years since Maple Leaf Foods agreed to compensate victims of a deadly nationwide outbreak of listeriosis linked to its deli meats, but not a single cheque has been signed.  [More...]

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...]

Senior government officials responsible for food safety and inspection have a message: the system has never been better.  [More...]

Canadian Food Inspection Agency documents often painted an inaccurate picture of the conditions at some of Canada’s meat and poultry plants where sanitation problems persisted, an American audit has found.  [More...]

The federal food safety watchdog is still unable to say how many full-time inspectors work in ready-to-eat meat plants more than two years after a deadly nationwide outbreak of listeriosis traced to tainted deli meats.  [More...]

Government experts say Canada’s food system is one of the safest in the world, but the union representing food agency inspectors says that’s not true.  [More...]

The federal government doesn’t have enough inspectors at plants that make ready-to-eat meat to properly police the high-risk operations — and the situation won’t be rectified until next spring, according to internal staffing projections released to Postmedia News.  [More...]