The national supply-management agency for chicken has set a production goal of 5.75 per cent above base quota for October 18 to December 12, but Ontario gets only a 5.5 per cent increase.
The Ontario Chicken Farmers marketing board said demand for chicken continues to be strong. This is supported by competing meat prices, steady per capita consumption and overall positive economic indicators.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is considering relaxing bans on specified risk materials from beef so they could once again be included in non-ruminant livestock feed, pet food and fertilizer.
The bans went into effect after bovine spongiform encephalopathy was identified in t May, 2003, in the brain tissue of a cow that died in Alberta.
Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald said lifting the bans will make it easier for Canadian beef processors to compete with the U.S.
Canada’s current enhanced feed ban took effect in 2007 to persuade the U.S. and other countries to resume buying Canadian beef.
Since 2021, Canada is considered to have negligible risk status for BSE, according to the World Organization for Animal Health, and the trading bans have been lifted.
The change in regulations would allow the sale of skulls, eyes, the nervous system, tonsils and the distal ileum portion of the small intestine the distal ileums from cattle less than 30 months old.
All of these items will still be banned from human food.
Bans will remain in effect brains and spinal cords from cattle more than 30 months old.
Beef processors and abattoirs will need a permit from the CFIA to separate and use the eligible parts from cattle aged 30 months or older.
CFIA has opened public consultation on the proposed changes. It closes Sept. 9.
Chief executive officer Andrea Brocklebank of the Canadian Cattle Association said “This is good news for our industry and our competitiveness.”
The Canadian Meat Council said the changes include “long-sought updates” to SRM requirements.
Additional costs related to removal and disposal of SRMs in Canada are estimated to cost an average of $167 per tonne, the CCA and CMC said.
Under today’s requirements, Canadian processors must discard about 57 kilograms of materials per carcass, compared to about three in the U.S.
Quebec startup ExclusiVert of Quebec is making a mobile starch extraction unit that travels from farm to farm to process cull potatoes into starch for bioplastics, paper manufacturing and other industrial products.
According to Dr. Said Elkoun, scientific director at ExclusiVert and professor at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada produces about six million tonnes of potatoes annually, and roughly 10 per cent never reach the fresh market because the potatoes are undersized, misshapen or otherwise unsuitable for sale.
In Quebec alone he estimates between 50,000 and 65,000 tonnes of potatoes fall into that category each year.
“We saw those figures and thought there was something we could do,” Elkoun said, referring to ExclusiVert co-founders Zedou Mouliom Atangana and Juliette Clairence Mango.
“Our idea was to move the process to the farmers instead of moving the potatoes to the factory.”
They came up with the idea based on work in Cameroon, Africa, to extract starch from cassava.
The National Farmers Union has made a plea for national food sovereignty in its response to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s food policy announcement and the opening of negotiations for the next five-year food policy framework.
growing local markets and regional trade, food security through food sovereignty, long-term public agriculture research and climate resilience.
Farmers need a food sovereignty policy that supports new farmers, a diversity of farm products and practices, and fair prices for the food they produce for both domestic and export markets, the NFU said.
The NFU is encouraging the federal, provincial and territorial ministers of agriculture to define food sovereignty as “the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.”
“A successful food sovereignty policy will address corporate power in the agriculture sector, declining farm incomes, generational renewal, and climate resilience,” said NFU vice-president Phil Mount.
The next five-year policy must be guided by the principles of resilience, renewal, sovereignty, and diversity,” said NFU president Jenn Pfenning,.
The NFU said it must prioritize five policy pillars: generational renewal, growing local markets and regional trade, food security through food sovereignty, long-term public agriculture research and climate resilience.
Lactalis Canada is buying Agropur’s fine cheeses division which includes the Oka brand and production facilities.
It is a major consolidation of the Canadian dairy sector, said e-dairy news service.
The division has annual sales of about $200 million which is about two per cent of Agropur’s annual revenues.
Canada’s mushroom exporters are facing an 8.6 per cent anti-dumping duty on sales to the United States, far less than the 32 to 44 per cent that Giorgio Mushrooms Inc. of Blandon, Pennsylvania, wants.
“Today’s preliminary determination confirms that the petitioner’s original dumping allegations were overstated,” said Ryan Koeslag, executive vice-president and chief executive officer of Mushrooms Canada. “
Mushrooms Canada emphasized that the United States Department of Commerce’s preliminary antidumping finding reflects the idiosyncrasies of U.S. antidumping law, rather than the commercial reality of the North American mushroom market.
“U.S. antidumping law contains technical calculation rules that can produce a finding of ‘dumping’ even when business sense and market realities tell a different story,” Koeslag said.
“A straightforward comparison of true average U.S. prices to true average Canadian prices would show no dumping at all. The preliminary rate announced today is the product of legal methodology — not proof that Canadian growers are selling unfairly.”
The trade case is far from over. Commerce must still issue two final determinations and the U.S. International Trade Commission must make a final injury determination.
Charcuterie products sold under two brands were recalled over the weekend after a finding of Listeria monocytogenes, public health authorities announced.
Boucherie Charcuterie Lyn Tremblay Inc. is recalling Charlevoisienne and Joe Smoked Meat brands which were distributed through both food service, retail channels and online.
“This recall was triggered by test results,” the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said. “There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products.”
Four products were recalled:
· Charlevoisienne’s “Lardons vrac,” a diced bacon, in two-kilogram packages.
· Charlevoisienne’s “Lardons,” a diced bacon, in 200-gram packages.
· Charlevoisienne’s “Jambon Québécois à l’érable Entier,” a glazed ham, in 2.5 kilogram packages.
· Joe Smoked Meat’s “Smoked Meat Maigre,” in 400-gram packages.
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Boucherie Charcuterie Lyn Tremblay Inc. is based in Saint-Urbain, Quebec, about 75 miles northeast of Quebec City.
This news was posted by Meatingplace Magazine. CFIA has yet to send out e-mails.