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Abacus Data survey of frontline food safety personnel to be released
The federal budget tabled on March 22nd includes a $38.5 million investment to shore up our sagging food safety system. The damage done to food safety during the Harper years will take time to repair. Expertise at the top of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has...
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CFIA document shows meat inspection cut in Northern Alberta
Health Minister Rona Ambrose believes the federal meat inspectors union is "irresponsible" and "inaccurate" when it says meat inspection has been reduced in Northern Alberta meat plants because of an inspector shortage. But, an internal document from the Canadian Food...
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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...
Food Safety in the News:
‘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...
Sweden has figured out how to keep food free of salmonella. Why can’t Canada?
David Burke - CBC News When it comes to controlling salmonella outbreaks, Canada could learn a lot from Sweden. The Nordic country is on a passionate mission to eliminate the harmful bacteria from its food. Thanks to strict regulations that apply to chickens and other...