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Xl Foods Beef Recall

XL Foods Review Panelist Will Make How Much Per Day?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.13.2013 | Canada Alberta

OTTAWA - It will cost taxpayers up to $3,500 a day, plus expenses, for a panel to review the E. coli outbreak at an Alberta meat plant last fall.The f...

Ottawa Launches XL Foods E. Coli Beef Review

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.10.2013 | Canada Alberta

OTTAWA - The federal government has launched a review of the E. coli outbreak last fall that sickened 18 people and led to the largest beef recall in ...

XL Foods SOLD

CP | Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.11.2013 | Canada Alberta

CALGARY - The Alberta meat-packing plant that was at the centre of the largest meat recall in Canadian history has been acquired by the subsidiary of ...

Food Safety Problems Brewed At XL Foods For Months Before Outbreak

CBC | Posted 03.10.2013 | Canada Alberta

An Alberta meat-processing plant at the centre of Canada's largest beef recall was ordered to address serious problems six times in the months leading...

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

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.07.2013 | Canada Alberta

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 ...

U.S. Management Gives Beleaguered Brooks Beef Plant New President

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 02.04.2013 | Canada Alberta

BROOKS, Alta. - A company that took over a southern Alberta beef plant during a tainted beef crisis has appointed a president for its Canadian operati...

More E. Coli Linked To XL Foods Plant

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.14.2013 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - A new case of E. coli has been linked to the XL Foods beef plant at the centre of an extensive product recall.The Public Health Agency of C...

CFIA Orders XL Foods Plant To Fix Problems

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.04.2013 | Canada Alberta

BROOKS, Alta. - Trouble continues for an Alberta meat plant as it tries to resume normal processing under the watchful eye of federal food safety insp...

Let The Meat Processing Begin

CP | Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.23.2012 | Canada Alberta

OTTAWA - Canada's food-safety watchdog restored the operating licence Tuesday for a southern Alberta meat-packing plant at the centre of a massive rec...

XL Foods Dumps E.Coli Tainted Meat At Landfill

CBC | Posted 12.21.2012 | Canada Alberta

XL Foods is dumping beef tainted with E.coli into a landfill in Brooks, Alta. The company took about 1.3 million pounds of frozen beef to...

B.C. Residents Sue XL Foods

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.17.2012 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - Two British Columbians who claim they fell ill after eating E. coli contaminated beef from XL Foods have filed lawsuits, including a class...

B.C. Residents Sue XL Foods

CBC | Posted 12.17.2012 | Canada British Columbia

A 15-year-old boy from Nanaimo and a Vancouver woman are suing XL Foods, which owns the Alberta-based meat packing company at the centre of an interna...

Union Surprised By XL Foods Layoffs

CBC | Posted 12.13.2012 | Canada Alberta

Staff and union officials attached to the embattled XL Foods meat processing plant in Alberta expressed shock after the company said Saturday it is te...

XL Foods Plant Conditions Still Not Safe, Union Claims

CBC | Posted 12.10.2012 | Canada Alberta

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...

What Canada's Meat Industry Needs To Do Better

CBC | Posted 12.10.2012 | Canada Alberta

The meat recall now underway, the largest in Canadian history, has put not only E. coli bacteria under the microscope but the meat inspection system a...

Saskatchewan E.Coli Cases Not Linked To Recall: Province

CBC | Posted 12.09.2012 | Canada Alberta

According to provincial health officials, more than a dozen cases of E. coli in Saskatchewan are likely not connected to the XL Foods beef recall, but...

I Loved Alberta Beef?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 10.09.2012 | Canada Alberta

The E. coli scare may have an industry reeling, government’s stuttering and consumers skipping the meat aisle. But one cheeky and creative Albert...

CFIA To Conduct Detailed Assessment Of Alberta Beef Plant

CP | Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.08.2012 | Canada Alberta

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...

Higher Steaks For U.S.

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.07.2012 | Canada Alberta

EDMONTON - The U.S. Food Safety Inspection Service has almost tripled its estimate of the amount of recalled beef that was imported from the XL Foods ...

Beef Recall Expands To More B.C. Retailers

CBC | Posted 12.07.2012 | Canada British Columbia

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has expanded its list of recalled beef products to include three British Columbia retailers. The expan...

Recall Revives Food Irradiation Concept

CBC | Posted 12.07.2012 | Canada Alberta

Food irradiation could help stem the safety risks that result in massive recalls like the recent one involving Alberta's XL Foods Inc., experts say. ...

5 New E. Coli Cases Linked To Beef Recall

CBC | Posted 12.06.2012 | Canada

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed that five additional cases — three in Alberta and two in Quebec —have been linked to a specific ...

Recall Expanded Again

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.06.2012 | Canada Alberta

OTTAWA - The number of illnesses linked to beef products from the XL Foods plant in Brooks, Alberta has increased to 10 people from three provinces.Th...

Alberta Meat Plant Didn't Follow Or Update E. Coli Plan

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.05.2012 | Canada Alberta

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the meat plant at the centre of a major beef recall had a plan to battle E. coli but wasn't followin...

XL Foods Breaks Beef Recall Silence

CBC | Posted 12.04.2012 | Canada Alberta

XL Foods Inc. says it is taking full responsibility and pledged to regain the trust of consumers as a massive recall of meat intensified today. ...