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Canada Publishes Dietary Guidelines Resource

Posted on May 4, 2022
  • On May 3, Canada published a new food guide resource, “Applying Canada’s Dietary Guidelines,” which provides information to help support the implementation of the food guide in policies

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CFIA Update on Simulated Meat and Poultry Proposal

Posted on August 6, 2021
  • The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) recently released a report on feedback it received during its consultation with stakeholders and consumers regarding its proposal to develop guidelines for simulated meat

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New Supplemented Foods Framework in Canada

Posted on June 28, 2021

Proposed New Regulatory Framework for Supplemented Foods in Canada

  • Prepackaged foods marketed in Canada as providing specific physiological or health effects, based on containing one or more added supplemental ingredients,

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Canada Sets Import Conditions for US Romaine Lettuce

Posted on October 9, 2020
  • The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced  that it is temporarily imposing import restrictions on romaine lettuce grown in the U.S.  CFIA specifies a number of ways to demonstrate that

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Canada Expands Use of Fines for Food Safety Noncompliance

Posted on May 6, 2019

  

  • Under the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act and Regulations (AAAMPR), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) may issue an Administrative Monetary Penalty (AMP) as an enforcement measure to

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FDA Publishes Findings from Investigation of Romaine Lettuce E. coli Outbreak

Posted on February 15, 2019
  • As previously reported on this blog, in November 2018 FDA, in conjunction with the CDC, state officials, and Canadian food and public health officials, investigated an outbreak of E.

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Canada’s New “Food Guide” Does Not Include Separate Dairy Category

Posted on January 23, 2019
  • Canada has released its updated “Food Guide” for 2019.  Later this year, Health Canada will release Part II of the Guide, which will include descriptions of healthy eating

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New Canadian Food Safety Law Takes Effect in One Week

Posted on January 8, 2019
  • The Safe Food for Canadians Regulations will become effective one week from today, on January 15, 2019. As previously reported on this blog, Canada proposed these regulations in January

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Canada Legalizes Recreational Marijuana

Posted on June 22, 2018
  • Last week, we published a blog post regarding a proposed bill in the United States Senate that would provide more autonomy to individual States in regulating marijuana.  On June 20,

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Health Canada Proposes Updates to Canada’s Food Guide

Posted on August 2, 2017
  • Pursuant to its mandate under the Food and Drugs Act, Health Canada is responsible for setting safety and nutritional quality standards for all foods sold in Canada.  Health Canada

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