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Ensuring Food Safety in Your Organic Products

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 1/25/19

By Tim Livingstone Concerns over the health implications of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, the pharmaceuticals given animals raised for their meat, and the environmental damage attributable to the chemicalization of farming, have helped make organic food increasingly popular over the past decade or so. There is also a growing concern over the factory-like conditions in which […]

Food Allergen Standards: Do Canadian Labelling Requirements Fall Short?

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 11/10/17

By Marilyn Allen Food allergies can be seriously life-threatening and since a very small amount of a food allergen can cause a serious allergic reaction when ingested, avoidance is key to staying safe. That makes appropriate labelling vital. In Canada alone, close to 2.7 million Canadians are at risk. The passing of the 2012 Amendment to […]

Growers can Improve Processes and Compliance with CanadaGAP

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 9/13/16

When the CanadaGAP certification program first became available in 2008, no one realized that program uptake would expand so rapidly: as of last year, there were 3,000 companies enrolled in the program nation-wide, with a 14% increase in participants logged in 2015 alone. Designed as a food safety program for companies that produce, handle and […]