The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA’s) Food Safety Enhancement Program government/industry steering committee met last week to discuss the progress of various CFIA food safety initiatives.
In response to a 2008 Listeria outbreak among Maple Leaf Foods customers, the Canadian Government has committed nearly $500 million to improving the delivery…
When the independent report of the investigation into Canada’s 2008 Listeria outbreak came out last summer, Maple Leaf Foods came in for its share of the blame.
After all, it was the meat slicers at its ready-to-eat meat plant in Toronto that ultimately spread the bacteria across Canada, killing 22…
Food companies with products that cause outbreaks usually end up falling into one of two groups. Either they are quickly gone forever, like Topps or Peanut Corporation of America, or they take responsibility and ask the public to give them another chance.
Canada’s Maple Leaf Foods clearly has joined the…
After Maple Leaf cold-cuts killed 22 people in Canada last year in a Listeria outbreak, the company is launching a revamped Website, which includes a new “food safety at home” section that shows consumers how they can take foodborne illness prevention into their own hands.
“There’s lots we…
Canadians who had symptoms of listeriosis after eating contaminated deli meats from Maple Leaf Foods last year have until Nov. 2 to file for a share of a $25 million compensation fund.
The compensation fund is for victims and their survivors of the 2008 Listeria outbreak that killed 22 mostly…
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