Information About Welcome to the Food Court

For context, on April 2, 2026, the FDA issued what appears to be its first warning letter with a dedicated AI-manufacturing section, to Purolea Cosmetics Lab in Livonia, Michigan. The letter found that AI agents had generated drug specifications, procedures, and master production records, and that t … Read more »

On April 14, CBC News published the second instalment of an investigation familiar to anyone following Canadian food retail. Reporters visited seventeen stores in three cities, weighed packaged meat on a kitchen scale, and documented thirty-two underweight products across seven locations of national … Read more »

Five days before Ottawa amended the Federal Plastics Registry reporting notice, I was presenting on an Alberta Agriculture panel on Sustainable Packaging in Canadian Agri-Food. I described Phase 2 as the next expansion of Canada’s federal plastics data layer. I told them the next phase would add r … Read more »

Radio-Canada’s Enquête, in its story Sirop de poteau this morning, reported laboratory findings suggesting that cans sold as “pure maple syrup” by a Québec producer contained substantial cane sugar. If borne out, the story is a reminder that food fraud risks rise at the intersection of premium pri … Read more »

I have wanted to write about the 2024 Joriki plant-based milk listeria outbreak and the 2025 CFIA audit of the perceived shortcomings of its multiplicative algorithm, the Establishment-based Risk Assessment (“ERA”) Model, leading up to the crisis.For context, the Globe and Mail reported that Joriki … Read more »