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Please join the Audit Now campaign by sending your message today!Food inspectors report widespread staff shortage: survey Deficit most acute in meat plants
For immediate release Ottawa (March 16, 2016) – The food inspection deficit that has left Alberta meat plants short-handed for more than a year is a now a national problem according to a new Abacus Data survey of front line food inspectors which found widespread staff...
Photos from the Food Safety press conference in Edmonton
Bob Kingston, President of the Agriculture Union – PSAC and Marianne Hladun, Prairie Regional Executive Vice-President of the Public Service Alliance of Canada spoke to reporters on March 31.
Statement by Bob Kingston -President of the Agriculture Union – PSAC
Earlier this week, the government announced its decision to transfer the food safety mandate of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to Health Canada from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Statement by Bob Kingston, President of the Agriculture Union – PSAC
On November 29, 2012, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency claimed the Agriculture Union made false statements concerning a CFIA memo directing food inspectors working at the XL Food plant to ignore certain food safety controls for domestic meat while ensuring that those same inspection tasks were completed on meat destined for export to Japan.