Baekdu Peak brand Enoki mushrooms are under recall.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it found Listeria monocytogenes food-poisoning bacteria in the mushrooms.
No illnesses have been linked to these mushrooms.
There have been more than a dozen recalls of Enoki mushrooms this year.
Wellington County is once again offering farmers grants of up to $3,000 to try things that improve regenerative agriculture practices.
The program, which began in 2022, has three categories: crops and planting, animals and grazing and innovation.
They money can be used for soil analysis, staff guidance, peer networking, and community events.
The application deadline is Jan. 16.
Food bought in supermarkets cost 3.4 per cent more this October than last year, but that’s better than the four per cent increase in September.
For the ninth month in a row, food prices rose faster than the overall inflation rate which was 2.2 per cent for October.
Statistics Canada said chicken prices were 6.2 per cent higher this October, processed food prices were up by 3.2 per cent but fresh vegetables down by 1.4 per cent.
The United States Department of Agriculture is blaming highly-pathogenic avian influenza for a 40 per cent price increase in turkey meat.
Its Economic Research Service estimates that 3.8 turkeys died or were euthanized between November 2024 and February 2025. The figures did not include the nearly 400,000 turkeys affected by HPAI infections this September.
The government report said wholesale frozen turkeys will cost about $1.31 per pound this year, up from 94 cents per pound a year ago.
The wholesale price increases so far have yet to affect frozen turkey supplies at retail, with turkey processors predicting that there should not be a shortage of birds for holiday dinners this year despite the wholesale price rise, it said.
However, smaller meat markets are reporting steep hikes in wholesale turkey prices they pay, although some larger retailers expect shoppers to continue the nearly relatively standard practice of shoppers looking for alternative food options in other grocery store aisles before Thanksgiving Day.
Sylvain Charlebois of Dalhousie University wrote in a column that Canadian chicken prices are likely to increase next year because the Chicken Farmers of Canada supply management agency failed to respond fast enough to increase production to meet increasing demand, because import quotas were filled well before the end of the year and storage reserves have diminished.
He also blamed the federal government for failing to allow processors to import more chicken. It allowed only 10 per cent of the volume they requested.
In its most recent report to the federal government, the national agency said production fell short of is target this fall and “ongoing avian
influenza-related chick shortages and quality issues” may result in more shortfalls in production.
It said that for the first time in years, tariff-rate import quotas have been filled and supplementary import permits have been granted.
It expressed no conerns about retail shortages leading to big price increases next year.
Emily Crocco, chair of the Canada Agriculture Appeal Tribunal, accepted the testimony of the truck driver that the pigs were roughly handled by farm staff and were panting and in distress when loaded for a trip to a packing plant in Manitoba.
The 301 pigs were crowded in the truck and lacked ventilation. Some were chronically ill.
The weather was 23.7 degrees, beyond the threshold of 21 when loads ought to be reduced by 10 per cent, according to Ontario Pork guidelines.
Crocco dismissed the testimony of hog owner Jim DeBrouwer, who testified that he did not recall anything out of the
ordinary with the pigs.
“That said, Mr. DeBrouwer was not present at the barn during
loading, so I do not put any weight on his testimony about this issue,” she wrote.
The pigs were on the trailer for 30 hours without feed, water, or rest, from the time they were loaded in Eatonville until they were offloaded at the rest station in Thunder Bay. Nineteen were dead.
The transportation of the surviving 169 pigs carried on toward Manitoba. and the trailer was no longer overloaded and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency veterinarian in Manitoba said they were okay.
The tribunal report said the company had three serious violations in the five preceding years and that was a factor in leaving the penalty the CFIA imposed at $13,000.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported an outbreak of highly-pathogenic avian influenza in a poultry farm near Sarnia.
A quarantine zone has been established around the farm in the municipality of Caradoc-Strathroy.
It is the second case in Ontario since spring. There have been dozens in British Columbia and Alberta.
ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula is under recall.
The Canadian Food Inspection said it may be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum.
This baby formula is imported from Pennsylvania.
The United States Food and Drug Administration is dealing with reports of 23 infants sickened in 13 states. None have died.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said there have been no Canadian reports of infants sickened by the bacteria.
Prices for infant formula have soared in Canada in the face of shortages. Some mothers say they can’t afford the prices, reported the CBC.