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Rules for Safe Food for Canadians Act reach final review phase

By Dan Flynn on January 24, 2017

Canada is running a couple of years behind the U.S. when it comes to overhauling its basic food safety law, but very shortly it will catch up. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has opened a…
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Canada Says Weatherill's 57 Food Safety Reforms Now in Place

By Dan Flynn on December 20, 2011

Canada’s federal government Monday said it has now addressed all 57 food-safety recommendations made by independent investigator Sheila Weatherill after the country’s deadly 2008 listeriosis outbreak.

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The Conservative government also said it would be introducing

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Extra $100 Million for Canada's Food Inspection

By Dan Flynn on March 28, 2011

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is getting an extra $100 million to improve food inspection capacity over the next five years.  

But the union president representing CFIA employees says the agency’s 2011-12 budget is

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Canada Adopts Another Food Safety Recommendation

By News Desk on November 19, 2010

A 7-member Ministerial Advisory Board (MAB) of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has been named by Gerry Ritz, Canada’s Agricultural Minister.

Ritz said the appointments are “another step to strengthen Canada’s food safety system”

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Canada Rolls Out New Listeria Policy for RTE Food

By Dan Flynn on November 8, 2010

The first new policy on Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods since 2004 will take effect in Canada next April 1.

It represents another in the Government of Canada’s responses to the Weatherill Report, the

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Slow Movement on Food Safety in Canada

By Dan Flynn on January 30, 2010

A college professor, a consumer group, and the union representing meat inspectors all dumped on Canada’s food safety agency this week with the barbs obviously intended for Ottawa’s Conservative Government.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency

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