Recalls on California produce has experts questioning farming practices
Keith Warriner from the University of Guelph commenting on recent recalls and questioning where Canidian's food comes from: Part of the problem is the fact...
Is the meal you're buying safe to eat?
The Georgetown Independent (Ontario) reports that using provincial criteria, all food premises in Halton are ranked high, medium or low riskdepending on the type of...
Food rules leave public at risk, warns medical officer
Brendan Wedley of the Peterborough Examiner (ON) reports that church suppers, service group dinners, strawberry socials and other community fundraising events would have been subject...
Handle with care, for your own good
The Belleville Intelligencer reports that local health unit offers a food-handling course and while it is tailor made for those in the food business, anyone...
Illness strikes senior center
Columbian staff writer Tom Vogt reports that about 20 people have become sick in the past few days at a Vancouver retirement center, including eight...
Ottawa looks into possible mad cow case
The Canadian Press reports that federal agriculture inspectors are looking into the possibility of another case of mad cow disease, a spokesman for the Canadian...
Inspectors test possible BSE case
CBC.CA News reports that federal inspectors are testing an animal that is suspected of having mad cow disease, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says. Mark...
Dinewise may become mandatory; Bylaw would force restaurants to make inspection reports available to public
Melanie Hennessey of Metroland - Halton Division reports that a bylaw that would make it mandatory for all Halton restaurants to have their health department...
Food poisoning sickens 44
The Windsor Star reports that the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Ontario, is, according to this story, investigating after employees of a Lakeshore factory became...
Canada and U.S. link databases to facilitate tracing of food outbreaks
Helen Branswell of the Canadian Press reports that public health officials on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border will be able to trace outbreaks of...
