Do you see a pattern on food files at Health Canada under Leona Aglukkaq? Publish Date: 21-JUL-2012 01:14 PM After discovering Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq quietly killed back in 2009 a departmental proposal to regulate trans fat levels in processed food, I wanted to find out if the issue was dead. After all, the department’s plan was drafted in accordance with a commitment from Aglukkaq’s predecessor, Tony Clement, to regulate if industry didn’t make enough progress under a voluntary program, tracked by Health Canada’s monitoring program. So, I filed an access to information to see if the issue was being discussed at Health Canada’s Food Expert Advisory Committee.
Les compressions dans l'inspection des aliments pourraient mettre le public en danger, disent les critiques (French) Publish Date: 17-JUL-2012 12:28 PM Austérité oblige, le budget de l'Agence canadienne d'inspection des aliments (ACIA) a malheureusement été amputé de 56 millions de dollars pour les trois prochaines années. Des centaines d'inspecteurs et plusieurs autres employés seront mis à pied. Ottawa a toutefois promis de maintenir en poste les inspecteurs de la transformation des viandes.
Tom Wright, Veterinary Biologics Veterinarian, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Charlottetown Publish Date: 31-MAR-2011 10:49 AM Tom Wright has been with the federal government for close to two decades. As veterinarians, biologists and research scientists, he and his CFIA colleagues protect the food safety of Canadians by ensuring that proper testing and monitoring procedures are in place, by providing information to decision makers, and by working with industry to prevent or eradicate disease in the Canadian food supply.
Carole Brodeur (French) Publish Date: 20-JUL-2010 01:05 PM Carole Brodeur works at the Food Research and Development Centre located in the Agri-food Science Park in Saint-Hyacinthe, QC.
