Features
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Single-use plastics ban: Issues and challenges
By Carol Zweep On June 10 of this year, Prime Minister Trudeau announced a ban on single-use plastics to come into effect as early as 2021. The list of banned items has not yet been determined but is expected to…
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Keeping up with the demand
Companies are developing plant-based food products to keep up with consumer demands, but they also see opportunities in developing co-products and extraction technologies.
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Protecting the bottom line
Martin Joyal has steered Yourbarfactory’s expansion in the past 15 years
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Bold action required
Canada’s food and beverage processors urgently need a national ecosystem Superfund for scale-up, research and innovation.
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Setting the stage for pet products with CBD
By Treena Hein Cannabidiol, or CBD for short, is being lauded as a way to relieve pain and anxiety and as a sleep aid for both humans and companion animals, as well as a treatment for epilepsy and arthritis. Various…
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My dog is vegan, just like me
A look at the growing interest in vegan diets for Canadian canines
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Curbing deceptive marketing
Consumers don’t like to be manipulated, but brands manipulate us all the time. Case in point, a can of Canada Dry Ginger Ale highlights “Made from Real Ginger,” but “ginger” is nowhere to be found in the ingredient list, only…
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Agricultural administrative monetary penalties
On May 1, final regulations amending the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Regulations (AAAMPR), were published in Canada Gazette II. AAAMPR has been around since the mid-1990s, but the application of administrative monetary penalties (AMP), to food labelling is new.…
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Made in Canada
Have you ever heard anyone say “let’s go out for Canadian food?” It’s an interesting question posed by David Hughes, emeritus professor of food marketing, Imperial College, London, U.K, during the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry meeting held…
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CFIA’s establishment-based risk assessment model
I recently attended a B.C. Food Protection Association event on the subject of assessing food safety risks across the entire food supply chain. One of the speakers was Manon Racicot from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) who spoke about a…
