The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has yanked the
egg-grading licence from Beking Poultry Farm at Oxford Station in Eastern
Ontario.
Officials say there were too many cracks included in Grade A
cartons.
The grading station will remain closed until CFIA inspectors
are satisfied that the business can accurately grade eggs.
On its website, the CFIA says “Licences and registrations of federally registered establishments
or companies can be suspended or cancelled for failing to comply with relevant
CFIA Acts and Regulations.”
The CFIA does not say on its website, where it posted the information about Beking Poultry, how many cracks it takes to prompt a licence suspension.
I guess it's more than the 11 per cent undergrades that have been identified by CFIA inspectors conducting random-sample checks at Grayridge and Burnbrae which together account for more than 90 per cent of the eggs graded in Ontario.
It's a certainty that the total number of cracks and undergrades those two giants market is thousands of times more than the cracks marketed by Beking Poultry.
