Information About Welcome to the Food Court

Canadian importers of rhum agricole, the French AOC- and IG-bearing cane-juice rums of Martinique and Guadeloupe, have told me more than once that bringing rhum into Ontario is close to a coin flip: roughly half the time, a shipment fails the LCBO’s laboratory and never reaches a shelf. That is thei … Read more »

I look forward to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s Food Fraud Annual Report each year. Active surveillance testing in Canada moved to an annual cycle around five years ago, and there’s always something illuminating in it. This year the illuminating thing was the inclusion of the words “67 perce … Read more »

Labelling, advertising and marketing are a considerable part of my practice. Allergen statements, bilingual claims, country-of-origin language, and joint-presentation rules for multipacks are some of the rules that decide whether a product can sit on a shelf in Canada, or whether the company selling … Read more »

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 »