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Canada, U.S. to collaborate on food safety controls

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff May 9, 2016

Food safety officials in Canada and the U.S. have formally recognized each other’s respective food safety controls under a cross-border co-operation pact. The two countries last week announced their new food safety systems recognition arrangement, reached during meetings of the Canada-U.S. Regulatory Co-operation Council (RCC) held Wednesday and Thursday in Washington, D.C. The two countries […] Read more

Free Market Reflections

Marketing misperceptions on food safety

By Steve Dittmer April 7, 2016

“We’re totally willing to throw up a little,” one couple said, explaining to the Washington Post how they would never give up their every-week Chipotle habit. There was no chance Chipotle was going to get me. They got on my “Do Not Patronize” list when I realized years ago that they were leaders of the […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Budget to boost ag research infrastructure, rural broadband

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 22, 2016

Funds to fix up Canada’s agricultural research stations and food safety labs and a new program to boost rural broadband coverage are among the nuggets for the farming sector in Tuesday’s federal budget. Overall, the Liberals’ first budget is based on $287.7 billion in revenues for 2016-17, against $291.4 billion in program expenses and $25.7 […] Read more

Whenever the buyer wavers because of uncertainty, Canadian food producers and processors hold their breath.

Livestock, Straight from the hip

What does it take for farmers to earn public trust?

By Brenda Schoepp March 11, 2016

As a followup to the last column we ask the question: What does it take to earn public trust? A few initiatives are underway to answer that question and address the concerns that consumers have already expressed. It is not that the public does not mistrust farmers — they just don’t know them. The rural […] Read more

Chipotle, which in 2013 launched the short film “The Scarecrow” as part of a campaign focused on fresh ingredients, shut all its stores Monday for a live-streamed nationwide staff meeting on food safety. (Chipotle Mexican Grill via YouTube)

Crops, Reuters

Chipotle shuts for staff food safety meeting

By siddharth-cavale, Subrat Patnaik February 9, 2016

Reuters — U.S. burrito chain Chipotle Mexican Grill shut its stores for four hours on Monday to hold a nationwide staff meeting, where CEO Steve Ells apologized for E. coli and norovirus outbreaks and laid out the company’s recently developed food safety program. Chipotle also said it would spend about $10 million to help local […] Read more

Beef Cattle, News Roundup

Pasteurizing beef trimmings in ground beef

News Roundup from the December 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 8, 2016

Currently packers use sprays and hot water pasteurization techniques during slaughter and fabrication to reduce the number of potentially harmful bacteria on the surface of meat as it goes through the plant. However, these treatments have not traditionally been applied to beef trimmings that go into ground beef products. Not until now. Several industry partners […] Read more

Good looking woman pouring liquid in a tube

Features, Livestock

The AMR dilemma: Part 1

Searching for ways to move forward on antimicrobial resistance

By Dr. Ron Clarke November 25, 2015

No issue in the past 15 years logged more space in agriculture, veterinary or public health-related press than antimicrobial resistance (AMR). No single topic appears more often on conference and seminar agendas than the one addressing prudent use and abuse of antimicrobials in humans and animals. Despite the attention AMR has received, we have not […] Read more

Livestock, Vet advice

New trouble ahead with bovine leukemia virus? Part 1

By Dr. Ron Clarke November 17, 2015

The headline “Virus in cattle linked to human breast cancer” is chilling. For the first time, a research team at the University of California, Berkeley, established a link between infection with bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and human breast cancer. The study, published September 2015 in a respected, peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, will draw attention to […] Read more

Vesta plans to begin construction on a European-designed water treatment plant this fall putting him on schedule to open in the first quarter of 2016.

Features

New Alta. packer seeks Harmony by design

By Debbie Furber August 25, 2015

Rich Vesta’s pride in his family’s state-of-the-industry beef-processing plant is evident as he talks about the features that will make Harmony Beef a one-of-a-kind plant in North America. The modernized Rancher’s Beef facility located in a vast industrial area east of Balzac, Alta. is now loaded with the latest European technology to provide a safe, […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Research

Hot water treatment of beef trim

By Reynold Bergen March 31, 2015

Combating bacteria would be simple if they stayed on the surface of beef. In that case, nearly any spray or wash could contact and kill the bacteria or wash them off. But beef isn’t smooth. Shallow cuts and cracks crisscrossing the meat surface can hide and protect bacteria. Killing these hidden bacteria is not simple. […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower on profit-taking, technicals and flat cash prices

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Conservatives call for approval of emergency strychnine use

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures end lower on profit-taking, technicals and flat cash prices

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Wheat bids pressured on multiple fronts

Conservatives call for approval of emergency strychnine use

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Canada, U.S. to collaborate on food safety controls

Marketing misperceptions on food safety

Budget to boost ag research infrastructure, rural broadband

Chipotle shuts for staff food safety meeting

Pasteurizing beef trimmings in ground beef

The AMR dilemma: Part 1

New trouble ahead with bovine leukemia virus? Part 1

New Alta. packer seeks Harmony by design

Hot water treatment of beef trim

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