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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 »

I’ve had a chance to think about the Canada–China Summit this past January, which included widely reported agrifood announcements being described as a new dawn or more cautiously, a thawing of what has been a very frosty relationship. I thought it would be worthwhile to think about what is a re- … Read more »

Mistakes happen. With food manufacturing, mistakes can take the form of malfunctioning equipment or cross-contamination of ingredients. Sometimes a key, trusted player in the supply chain sources an ingredient from a new supplier to meet demand, and that new ingredient contains an undeclared allerge … Read more »