Food safety update 8th October 2012

 

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Food safety CFIA’s top priority
Ottawa Citizen
The CFIA will continue to maintain a very strong presence at this plant and all other federally registered plants to verify that industry processes and practices are minimizing risks to food safety. The CFIA’s top priority is the safety of Canadian
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Food safety authority delays GM study over credibility concerns
Irish Examiner
The European Food Safety Authority has stalled a dual study which linked tumours developed by test rats to potential toxicity in one species of genetically modified maize and a herbicide containing glyphosate. The EFSA criticised he study for selecting
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European Food Safety Authority dismisses French study of GMO corn
DigitalJournal.com
The EFSA said however that, upon an initial review, it had determined that the “design, reporting and analysis of the study … are inadequate,” meaning it could not “regard the authors’ conclusions as scientifically sound when determining the safety
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DigitalJournal.com
Conservatives’ Food Safety Failure | L’échec conservateur en sécurité alimentaire
Liberal Party / Parti libéral
Conservatives’ Food Safety Failure | L’échec conservateur en sécurité alimentaire. liberalvideo. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe. Loading… 1,210 videos. Loading… Alert icon. You need Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe.
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European Food Safety Authority Reviews, Dismisses Séralini Maize Study As
Science 2.0
The European Food Safety Authority has weighed in with its assessment of the maize study by Gilles-Eric Séralini and his research team at France’s University of the Caen, which purportedly showed that rodents fed a strain of genetically modified corn
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Budget cuts will exacerbate food safety issues
rabble.ca (blog)
If anything is to be concluded from this most recent food safety failure, it is that the CFIA needs to be more vigilant in its inspections, it needs more inspectors, and those inspectors need to be better trained to spot problems early and deal with
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rabble.ca (blog)
AVA ensures food safe for consumption
TODAYonline
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA), which regulates the import of food products for food safety, adopts a risk-based approach and has a comprehensive, integrated system to ensure that imported food products are safe for consumption. As part
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Blogs
Frozen Strawberries Blamed for 11,000 German Food Safety News
By News Desk
Frozen Strawberries Blamed for 11,000 German Illnesses. By News Desk | October 6, 2012. Frozen strawberries are “very likely” the cause of food poisoning that sickened more than 11,000 students in almost 500 schools and day care centers
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Quality & food safety – Fresh trout
Quality & food safety. Snowy Mountains Trout Farm strives to provide the highest quality farmed trout. Brood stock are kept on-farm and at Caddigat Lakes at
www.freshtrout.com.au/about/quality-food-safety/

 

 

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