The Canadian Food Inspection Agency detected Listeria monocytogenes food-poisoning bacteria, so Levitts Foods (Canada) Inc. is recalling Compliments brand Smoked Beef Pastrami.
The CFIA said further investigation might lead to additional recalls.
The product under recall is in 175-gram packages with a Best Before date of Dec. 25.
Compliments brands are sold via Sobeys, Foodland and IGA supermarkets.
Smithfield had appealed that huge award and was successful in the new negotiations in getting evidence about corporate profits and executive salaries excluded from consideration.
But the three-judge panel rejected most of Smithfield’s arguments, primarily noting that the company knew of the potential harms of its farming methods but continued to use them anyway.
“Appellees’ evidence demonstrated that [Smithfield] did not even attempt to assess the impact of its operations on neighbors, despite known risks,” Judge Stephanie D. Thacker wrote for the court. “Based on this abundance of evidence, a jury could reasonably conclude that [Smithfield] persisted in its chosen farming practices despite its knowledge of the harms to its neighbors, exhibiting wanton or willful disregard of the neighbors’ rights to enjoyment of their property.”
The appellate court agreed with Smithfield, however, that jurors should not have heard the company’s financial details in the consideration of damages. In this specific case, the plaintiffs were awarded $2.5 million in punitive damages.
There remain many of the 25 lawsuits that have been filed to either be settled out of court or in court trials.
The take-home message for all livestock farmers is clear: be nice to your neighbours!
Dr. Jason McCallum and Dr. Chris Kirby have found a much faster way to purify specific plant-based compounds so they can be analyzed.
They have already used the technique to isolate and purify a compound from hops that appears to be able to counter cancers.
The technique takes minutes instead of traditional methods which take days and will help researchers who are looking for plant compounds that improve health, agriculture and nutrition.
Dr. McCallum worked in nutri-science and spent hundreds of hours in his lab separating various plant extracts into pure chemical compounds – until he helped discover the new, much faster, approach.
Their UPLC technology can extract a pure compound from many different parts of plants – leaves, flowers, fruit, etc.
“Older purification methods produced large volumes of compounds for analysis, and for our purposes, we required only a fraction of that output,” says Dr. McCallum.
“Our theory was simple – by reducing the scale of the device and materials used, we could decrease the time to complete analysis and reduce waste.”
The technique will help those working for to find compounds to help agriculture, nutri-science and pharmaceuticals.
“Through UMSF, we’ve confirmed the anti-cancer activity of hops components in a multicellular organism (brine shrimp) for the first time,”
“The mystery that cancer researchers will need to explore further is, how are these hops chemicals destroy cancer cells,”
Countries have imposed travel restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and that’s presenting challenges for migrant workers who planned to return home.
“As countries around the world take measures at their borders to control the spread of COVID-19, the movement of workers and travellers has been significantly disrupted,” federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said.
She singled out those from Trinidad and Tobago and said the Canadian government is taking steps to help them get home. She recommends that the workers contact their embassies in Ottawa.
Others say they are facing similar challenges returning to Jamaica.
He has been an active volunteer on the British Columbia Forage Council (BCFC) since its inception.
He provided “invaluable support to the new generation of forage-focused agrologists in B.C.,” the association said in making the award during its annual meeting Thursday.
Awmack is treasurer on the British Columia Forage Council’s board of directors and is a member of the Canadian Seed Trade Association.
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced there will be Challenge Streams A and B with a grand prize of $1.5 million for the best ideas.
Concept applications with a closing date of January 18 are now open.
Canadians are being challenged to propose concepts that will reduce food waste along the delivery route from farms to meals.
Applications will be judged in stages by an external group of subject matter experts will recommend which applicants move to the following stage and receive funding. For Challenge Streams A and B, at the last stage, one winner per stream will be awarded a grand prize of up to $1.5M.
At each stage of the Challenge, “an external group of subject matter experts will recommend which applicants move to the following stage and receive funding,” the government news release said.
“Funding will be awarded to those whose innovative solutions have the potential of reducing the most amount of food waste, with a focus on new innovators looking to accelerate and grow their solutions and who may not have the necessary resources.”
In the spring a second set of Challenge Stream C and D to “support technologies that can extend the life of food or transform food that would otherwise be lost or wasted.”
The European Union has imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on United States blueberries, dates, grapefruit and sweet potatoes and some other products.
The tariffs are allowed in the follow-up to a World Trade Organization ruling that the United States broke its trade rules by imposing tariffs on Airbus aircraft.
The American Farm Bureau Federation calculated that U.S farm products make up more than 60 per cent of the EU tariffs on about $4 billion worth of imports.
The EU also put in place a 15 per cent retaliatory tariff on civilian aircraft and some other manufactured goods.
“As is frequently the case, U.S. food and agriculture producers are unfortunately being dragged into a dispute that they had nothing to do with,” said the American Farm Bureau.