Only after customers who fell sick after drinking Silk products, and one died, was it determined through genetic testing that the contamination went on for a year before it was detected.
The Globe and Mail said the plant was not closely checked because the CFIA determined it was in a low-risk category, and the newspaper said that whole system is a problem.
It is far from the first time the CFIA’s food inspection has been brought into disrepute.
The Waterloo Region Record won a governor-general award for public service for exposing terrible conditions in meat-packing plants and CFIA veterinary inspectors failing on the job, including one who hid from inspection staff behind a locked office door and another who danced and and sang on the moving eviscerating table.
That veterinarian in charge of inspection at the plant also routinely loaded his trunk with beef from the plant and rented.a home from the plant’s owner, but was never confronted with a conflict of interest, despite newspaper queries to CFIA supervisors at the provincial and federal levels of responsibility.
