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CFIA reconsiders ill-advised meat inspection changes
For immediate release Ottawa (August 8, 2017) – New leadership at Canada’s food safety regulator is reconsidering changes to inspection procedures its former President planned to usher in under a program called “Inspection Modernization” amid warnings the changes...
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Food Safety in the News:
Canada posts recall No. 20 for beef and veal because of risk of E. coli
Food Safety News Health and food safety officials in Canada are warning the public and foodservice operators about yet another list of beef products being recalled as part of an E. coli investigation. This time the recall notice from the Canadian Food Inspection...
‘Seafood fraud’ widespread in Canada, says ocean advocacy group
More than one-third of fish samples in Montreal were entirely different species than advertised Jaela Bernstein - CBC News A recent investigation, which tested seafood bought in Montreal, found more than half of the samples were mislabelled, adding to...
What’s behind a deadly salmonella outbreak in Canada?
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Health Canada says it will set cap on arsenic in food, including baby cereal
Christine Bear - The Associated Press Health Canada says it will launch a months-long consultation process this year on setting a maximum level of arsenic allowed in rice and rice-based food, including baby cereal. Currently, there is no hard limit on arsenic in food...
Pork industry soon will have more power over meat inspections
Kimberly Kindy - The Washington Post The Trump administration plans to shift much of the power and responsibility for food safety inspections in hog plants to the pork industry as early as May, cutting the number of federal inspectors by about 40 percent and replacing...