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Toronto takes on feds, province, issues own food safety agenda
I hear from local public health officials all the time, and the ones in Canada repeatedly say the single food inspection agency — known creatively as, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency – sucks. The...
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Albert Amgar: The restaurant business, how to improve hygiene?
Nikki Marcotte, a new student, tries out her translation skills on a piece from French food safety blogger, Albert Amgar. In Conseil National de l’Alimentation’s newsletter No. 13, dated June 11, 2010,...
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Former Health Canada chief goes public after safely retiring
It’s not food safety, but it’s such an old and disappointing story that it’s worth repeating. Again. This time it’s the former head of Health Canada’s nutritional sciences bureau blasting the federal...
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SC Dept of Health and Environmental Control doesn’t name outbreak restaurant;...
With at least 11 E. coli O157:H7 illnesses (and 2 HUS cases) linked to an unnamed Spartanburg Mexican restaurant, social media speculation and outrage has commenced. From the WSPA-TV (Spartanburg)...
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Why does CFIA have so many secret documents?
The sanctimony gets rich listening to self-proclaimed environmentalists or cost-cutters or advocates burning up carbon and racking up frequent-flier points to spread their gospel. Canadians are...
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What’s your score mate: Brisbane’s black-list eateries named and shamed by...
Brisbane aspires to be a world-class city but still suffers from its redneck past. Sydney figured out some of the aspects of restaurant inspection disclosure, or grades, five years ago, five years...
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Awash in cockroaches Calif restaurant calls health department on itself
I’m a fan of transparency for all things food, so when a Marin, California restaurant called the heath department to report a massive cockroach infestation – at its own restaurant, I thought, yeah....
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XL sucks; Companies have primary responsibility for food safety. Without...
The feds are doing a lot of chest-thumping as the XL slaughterhouse in Alberta struggles to reopen, what with 17 now sick from E. coli O157:H7 linked to beef from the plant. Such behavior is absolutely...
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Humane handling and video recording: Should you share the recordings?
I’ve long been an advocate of video observation in slaughterhouses to verify and improve and food safety and animal welfare. Steve Sayer of Meatingplace apparently agrees, writing, What’s there to...
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Horse meat scandal leads to tighter rules: Ireland food safety chief
Excerpts below from an op-ed in in the Irish Times by Prof Alan Reilly, chief executive of Food Safety Authority of Ireland. Over three months have elapsed since the Food Safety Authority of Ireland...
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Full disclosure: Toronto Public Health creates institutional outbreak website
Public health folks seem to wrestle with when to make investigation information public: they want to have enough data to be confident before fingering any specific foods or locales. Releasing incorrect...
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I’m not sure untransparent is a word, but that’s the Dutch. According to a new report in the Telegraaf, the Dutch safety institute is poised to publish a damning report about food safety in the meat...
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Be open: McDonald’s, Yum release supplier data after China food safety issues
Five fast food chains including McDonald’s and Yum Brands Inc have published details of their suppliers on their Chinese websites, following a request from Shanghai authorities after the latest food...
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Where’s the micro? Whole Foods to introduce produce ratings program
It’s just too easy to make fun of the adjective-embracing data devoid Whole Foods Market, Inc. The company is going to introduce a produce ratings program on Oct. 15, said John Mackey, co-chief...
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Transparency? Hepatitis A outbreaks in Belize, UK schools
The Ministry of Health is working to contain a localized outbreak of Hepatitis A at a government school in Buena Vista, Cayo. According to reports, there was one case of the virus reported before...
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Going public: Is this why companies incorporate in Conn? Food safety info,...
Rob Cribb of the Toronto Star points out failings in transparency at Health Canada, and repeats a phrase I’ve often used, that there is no way the U.S would tolerate the amount of public service...
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Thousands of Oregon food safety inspections still past due
Our own Rob Mancini – most handsome man in food safety – was quoted in the Oregon Statesman Journal last week as saying, “In other jurisdictions high-risk facilities are typically inspected four times...
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Funky duck: Processor goes full tilt on transparency
The kids in my lab had me buy a video camera in 1999 so we could film stuff and put it on the Intertubes long before youtube existed (and film my 2000 Ivan Parkin lecture at IAFP when I got turned away...
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