Information About Welcome to the Food Court

Each year at G. S. Jameson & Company, we develop a video where we try to capture the most significant developments to food regulation that are happening in Canada. The hope is that our Canadian and international friends can take a lunch break to learn enough to do some issue spotting for their clien … Read more »

Food charities make up some of Canada’s oldest not-for-profits. These charities continue to play an integral part in Canada’s public support architecture. In our experience working and volunteering with food charities, the operations on the ground are wholly consuming: staff, management and director … Read more »

If you shop at a major grocery store in Canada, you have probably noticed that your grocery bill has gone up in the past year. And, by now, you may have heard that the Competition Bureau (“Bureau”) intends to investigate the rising price of food, increasing at the fastest rate in 40 years, at major … Read more »

Most Canadians will remember Bisphenol A (“BPA”) for making headlines a decade ago. In 2008 studies found that BPA, a chemical best known for its use in hard plastic containers, leached out of these plastics when heated. When this was first discovered, Health Canada initially stated that this was of … Read more »

In June 2022, the Minister of Environment released the long- anticipated Single-use Plastics Prohibition Regulations: SOR/2022-138 pursuant to subsection 93(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. These regulations prohibit the manufacture, import, and sale of certain single-use plast … Read more »