The Canadian Food Inspection Agency apparently stepped up
its inspection of food imports, seizing, detaining of disposing of products on
close to 200 occasions.
The inspectors even caught flawed imports destined for
Canada’s three largest supermarket chains and one of the largest foodservice
companies.
There were 86 cases in Quebec, 73 in Ontario, 31 across
Western Canada and three in the Atlantic Region during July, August and
September.
In Ontario, Sobeys had grapes seized, Sysco had boneless
beef detained, L.N. Reynolds had several seizures involving boneless beef and
veal, Export Packers Co. Ltd. also had several involving canned albacore tuna
and bone-in pork and H.J. Heinz at Leamington had some parmesan chicken
detained.
In Quebec, the Maxi chain owned by Loblaws had more than a
dozen detentions of ground chicken breast, Metro had one detention of frozen
boneless beef and Agro Meats had half a dozen detentions of lamb poducts.
In the West, Loblaws’ T&T Supermarket chain had two
detentions of apples.
The infractions inspectors identified ranged from biological
to chemical to lack of proper documentation and often the website says only
“other non-compliance”.
