Posts tagged Listeriosis
Video: Chris Olsen on Maple Leaf recall
Mar 10th, 2010
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
CTV British Columbia
Video: Inspecting Ottawa’s food inspector promise
Mar 9th, 2010
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
Global National
Kellogg’s Warned Over Listeria in Eggo Plant
Feb 17th, 2010
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
Food Safety News
Sometimes you just want to put a problem behind you, but it just sticks around like duct tape.
A new “Warning Letter” from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to the Kellogg’s Company raises questions about whether the Listeria problem at its Atlanta Eggo plant is truly resolved. [More...]
Food inspectors ask: what’s in your sandwich?
Feb 16th, 2010
Posted by Jim Thompson in Press Release
MPs can vote for food safety even during prorogation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ottawa – On behalf of the 11 to 13 million Canadians who are sickened every year by the food they eat, the food inspectors union delivered an electronic “sandwich” to every MP today which contains critical information about the risks Canadians face by eating everyday [...]
Feeling queasy
Feb 10th, 2010
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
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...]
Government gets failing grade on food safety
Jan 28th, 2010
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
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]
Federal Government gets failing grade on food safety
Jan 27th, 2010
Posted by Jim Thompson in Press Release
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 the government’s [...]
Mould, slime found at Listeria-stricken meat plant weeks after heavy cleaning
Nov 8th, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
By: Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Newly released inspection reports reveal that a top-to-bottom scrubbing after a deadly listeriosis outbreak apparently didn’t fully cleanse a Maple Leaf Foods plant of mould, slime and meat debris, and that inspectors found a troubling lack of hygiene at the company’s Toronto facility just weeks after it reopened [...]
Science union calls for quick action on food inspection services
Nov 2nd, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
The union representing scientists working for the federal government is calling for an immediate moratorium on the deregulation of food inspection in Canada.
Montreal Gazette
OTTAWA — The union representing scientists working for the federal government is calling for an immediate moratorium on the deregulation of food inspection in Canada.
The Campaign for Public Science, to be launched [...]
Report on the listeriosis outbreak released – 57 recommendations made
Jul 22nd, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
Listeriosis report slams leadership
Jul 22nd, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
Minister rules out any compensation for victims’ families
By: Sarah Schmidt and Meagan Fitzpatrick, National Post
A “void in leadership” within the federal government during last summer’s deadly listeriosis outbreak came after company officials and over-worked meat inspectors failed to identify a persistent listeria problem at the Maple Leaf Foods plant, according to a highly critical report [...]
Food safety report leaves many questions
Jul 22nd, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
Analysis catalogues succession of failures that led to troubling tragedy
By: Robert Cribb, Toronto Star
Twenty-two dead.
Hundreds sickened.
Six months of inquiry.
Nearly $3 million in public money.
The result: 57 recommendations for improving a food safety system that allowed listeria buried inside a meat slicer in a Toronto-area Maple Leaf plant to reach nursing homes and stores, gradually claiming [...]
Food safety investigation falls short
Jul 21st, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Inspector shortage compromising food safety
Ottawa – Many of Sheila Weatherill’s recommendations make a constructive and valuable contribution to improving the safety of food in Canada and should be implemented immediately, even though it appears that the CFIA and others in government have either withheld information or misled her, according to the union representing [...]
Meat inspections lasted less than 2 hours a day
Jul 11th, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
Officials spent most of their time on paperwork at Maple Leaf plant leading up to listeria crisis
By: Robert Cribb, Toronto Star
Federal inspectors monitoring the Maple Leaf plant at the centre of Canada’s largest listeria outbreak spent less than two hours a day at the facility – often dropping in for as little as 15 minutes [...]
Tainted meat linked to shortage of inspectors
May 26th, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
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 the agriculture [...]
CFIA admits lack of inspections at Maple Leaf plant
Apr 26th, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
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 that government [...]
CFIA food inspectors react to whitewash lisertia report
Apr 17th, 2009
Posted by Jim Thompson in Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ottawa – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s report on lessons learned from last summer’s listeriosis outbreak is disappointing in that it ignores the root cause of the outbreak, according to the food inspectors union.
“This report is blind to the inspector shortage that is making it impossible for CFIA to properly do its job [...]
How safe is your food?
Oct 29th, 2008
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
Twenty dead. A company under siege. The unsettling truth about the Maple Leaf outbreak.
By: MICHAEL FRISCOLANTI, Maclean’s
The Clark family reunion was scheduled for the third weekend of July. Uncles and cousins and in-laws, from as far away as Utah and Florida, had marked the date on their calendars months before. Plane tickets were booked, motel [...]
Food Safety segment on CBC Radio’s ‘The Current”
Sep 22nd, 2008
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
Vote for better food safety policies, unions say
Sep 12th, 2008
Posted by Jim Thompson in Media Story
CBC News
Canadians should vote for the candidate who commits to improving food safety, two unions urged as they launched a national advertising campaign on Friday.
A single strain of listeria has been linked to 16 deaths traced to a Maple Leaf Foods meat processing plant in Toronto, prompting a nationwide recall of meat products.
The timing of [...]
