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Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Cracking Down On E. Coli

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.18.2013 | Canada Alberta
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SASKATOON - Canada's food watchdog is planning to impose tougher rules to deal with the threat of E. coli in slaughterhouses.Agriculture Minister Gerr...

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CFIA Issues Herbal Tea Recall

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.25.2013 | Canada Living
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OTTAWA - A brand of herbal tea is being recalled and consumers are being advised not to drink it because of the possibility of salmonella poisoning.Th...

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Big Changes To B.C. Meat Inspections

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.24.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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VERNON, B.C. - B.C. is taking over inspection services from the federal government at about 60 slaughterhouses that process meat for the retail market...

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Canada's Food Safety Rules Not Much Use If Not Followed: Experts

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.25.2013 | Canada
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Veteran cattleman George Graham has a common-sense solution for how to prevent a repeat of an E. coli outbreak and extensive product recall in the fal...

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Tainted Burgers At Loblaws?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.11.2013 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - Four cases of E. coli infection have prompted a recall of frozen hamburgers across the country.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Loblaw...

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Shipment To U.S. Can Resume For Troubled Beef Plant

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.07.2013 | Canada Alberta
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OTTAWA - An Alberta meat plant involved in a massive recall of tainted beef over E. Coli concerns is once again being allowed to ship products to the ...

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Better Inspector Training Needed, Says Former XL Manager

CBC | Posted 12.22.2012 | Canada Alberta
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A former XL Foods Inc. manager is raising questions about Canadian Food Inspection Agency inspectors following the largest beef recall in Canadian his...

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Uh-Oh: U.S. To Audit Canada's Food Agency

CP | John Cotter, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.12.2012 | Canada Alberta
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EDMONTON - The federal agency responsible for protecting Canadians from food safety hazards will itself soon be under the microscope.The Canadian Food...

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XL Foods Allowed To Partially Re-Open

CP | Posted 10.11.2012 | Canada Alberta
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The Alberta plant at the centre of an E. coli scare and massive beef recall is being allowed to resume limited operations under tougher food testing r...

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XL Foods Plant Conditions Still Not Safe, Union Claims

CBC | Posted 12.10.2012 | Canada Alberta
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The union representing workers at XL Foods Inc. is calling for a public inquiry into the massive beef recall at the company's meat-packing plant in Br...

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Federal Inspectors Begin 'Detailed Assessment'

CBC | Posted 12.09.2012 | Canada Alberta
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XL Foods, the plant at the centre of a massive E. coli-related beef recall, says it has addressed all the safety issues and concerns raised by the Can...

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CFIA To Conduct Detailed Assessment Of Alberta Beef Plant

CP | Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.08.2012 | Canada Alberta
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OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency will be conducting a detailed assessment on Tuesday of the Alberta processing plant at the heart of a mas...

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B.C. Gets Ready To Take Over Meat Inspections

CBC | Posted 12.04.2012 | Canada British Columbia
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As the list of B.C. supermarkets and products affected by the XL Foods beef recall continues to grow, the provincial government is getting ready to ta...

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Political Fallout Builds As Beef Recall Grows, AGAIN

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.03.2012 | Canada Alberta
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OTTAWA - The list of beef products being recalled from Alberta's XL Foods due to possible E. coli contamination grew again early today.The Canadian Fo...

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Another Helping Of Recalls

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.30.2012 | Canada Alberta
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OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency made dozens of additions on Sunday to its list of possibly contaminated beef products which came from an ...

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Is Canada's Food Inspection System Reaching A Breaking Point?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 07.17.2012 | Canada Business
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This article is part of a Huffington Post series on the global impact of austerity -- "A Thousand Cuts" -- from affordable housing funds lost in San F...

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Anthrax Cuts Down Canadian Bison

CBC | Posted 09.05.2012 | Canada
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Anthrax is believed to have killed 128 bison northwest of Fort Providence, N.W.T. The carcasses were found close to Mills Lake during a ro...

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Another Salmon Virus Outbreak?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 09.04.2012 | Canada Business
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ST. ALBAN'S, N.L. - A quarantine is in effect at an aquaculture facility on Newfoundland's south coast while the Canadian Food Inspection Agency inves...

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Virus Confirmed At B.C. Salmon Farm

CBC | Posted 07.30.2012 | Canada
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says secondary tests have confirmed that an infectious virus was present in fish at farm operated by ...

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Third Salmon Farm Quarantined In Two Weeks

CP | Keven Drews, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.25.2012 | Canada Business
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VANCOUVER - Fears about the presence of an infectious virus have forced the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to quarantine a third B.C. salmon farm in ...

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MASSIVE Salmon Slaughter Takes Toll

CP | Keven Drews, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.18.2012 | Canada Business
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VANCOUVER - Atlantic salmon farms around Vancouver Island have begun testing and formed a special outbreak management team after a virus outbreak at o...

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Are Canadians Being Ripped Off At The Grocery Checkout?

CBC | Posted 07.11.2012 | Canada Business
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Many customers are being overcharged when they buy some packaged foods in grocery stores, according to an inspector with the Canadian Foo...

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The 8 Insects You're Eating By Accident

The Huffington Post Canada | Brian Vinh Tien Trinh | Posted 05.02.2012 | Canada Living
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If you thought finding a fly in your soup was enough to turn you off your meal, try finding a maggot in your canned mushrooms or caterpillar remains i...

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Tory Cuts Put Public Safety At Risk Says Mulcair

CP | Keith Leslie, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.15.2012 | Canada Politics
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HAMILTON - The Harper government's cuts to public service jobs are putting Canadians at risk, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair warned Sunday as he vowed to defe...

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These Sheep Did Nothing Baaaaaaaad

Liz O'Connell | Posted 06.09.2012 | Canada
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Last week, a Canadian sheep farmer, Montana Jones, reported 41 of her sheep had been stolen.

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