Maple Leaf Foods in conjunction with the CFIA is recalling a range of weiners that may be contaminated with the Listeria bacterium. These weiners were processed in the Maple Leaf Foods plant in Hamilton Ontario. A full listing of the recalled products follows."Brand...
Trust in the safety of ready-to-eat food products was severely damaged by the listeriosis outbreak this summer that originated with sliced meat, according to a survey by researchers at the University of Guelph. ...
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The employee communications memos written by Michael McCain, president of Maple Leaf Foods, during the listeria outbreak that originated with his company's processed meat products seem to follow the fives stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally,...
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The CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) is considering new, stricter, regulations for listeria testing at meat processing plants in the aftermath of an listeriosis outbreak that killed 20 people in Canada this...
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Maple Leaf Foods, the original source of the deadly listeriosis outbreak this summer in Canada, has appointed a new safety officer to oversee food safety and quality programs for the company. The Maple Leaf...
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Maclean's "Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine" is making the listeria outbreak and food safety its lead story this week. "How safe is Canadian food? : This week in Maclean's TORONTO, Oct. 30...
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The listeriosis outbreak in Canada this summer that began with processed meat products from Maple Leaf Foods has cost the company $42.9 million dollars, so far.The company put numbers to its business costs in the...
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Leamington, Ontario deputy mayor Rob Schmidt announced this week that his family will not participate in the class-action suit being brought against Maple Leaf Foods over the listeriosis outbreak traced to...
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Original listeria contamination was intense : the most vulnerable were at greatest risk Health authorities tracking the listeriosis outbreak in August were astonished to discover the extent and instensity of...
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In an editorial of measured anger, The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) has charged that errors of public health policy in the present government helped produce the "worst epidemic of listeriosis in the...
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Listeriosis update: 13 deaths, 38 confirmed cases Canada-wideOntario takes the brunt of outbreak As of Friday afternoon, the national count of confirmed listeriosis cases and deaths from the recent outbreak stands at 38 confirmed cases, with 20 more under investigation....
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Opinion Barry Artiste Maple Leaf foods are deep discounting their foods in a public relations move to win back consumers, sort of a quasi price war, with 50 percent off meats versus competitors similar...
Opinion Barry Artiste Certainly this new allegation will not bode well considering the pending lawsuits against Maple Leaf Foods from Victims of Listeria which has been linked to the 15 deaths of consumers and...
Opinion Barry Artiste Listeria Hysteria is nothing new, it has hit the world over from Turkey to New South Wales and other parts of the world. Though the Listeriosis is a tragedy, befalling dozens of Canadians,...
"Here is why the Governments temporary foreign worker program is legalized exploitation. Maple Leaf Foods has shut down a program to import workers from China after discovering that 61 employees at its Brandon, Man., pork processing plant each had to pay a $10,000 fee...
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