Tuesday, July 2, 2013

CFIA collects $343,600 in penalties


The Canadian Food Inspection Agency collected $343,600 in administrative penalties during the second quarter of this year.

Transportation violations under the Health of Animals Act accounted for $319,000 of that total from 44 penalties; there were another 54 who got off with a warning.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it names repeat offenders, but there are no names attached to the report on transportation violations.

There was one $10,000 fine levied in Ontario under the Plant Protection Act and one in Western Canada, also for $10,000. One warning was issued in Western Canada.

There were was a long list of people and companies who gave up their organic certification; two were suspended in Ontario – Ron and Dianna Coutts on March 18 and again on April 22 and Dixie Poultry Co. on April 10.

A number of companies had products detained by Canadian Food Inspection Agency inspectors, including burgers at the Cargill Limited plant in Brampton on March 25 because of E. coli, Burnbrae Farms Ltd. shell eggs at Mississauga on March 22, Maple Lynn Foods (a division of Burnbrae) on Feb. 26 for eggs, Grand River Poultry for raw chicken wings and Ivanhoe Cheese of Madoc on Jan. 8 for listeria.

McCain Foods Limited at Montreal ran into a lot of problems with imperial rolls that were detained o March 25, 26, 27 and 28 and mini pizza detained on March 27.

Nutrioeuf had shell eggs detained at St. Hyacinthe on March 15.

Pesticides in fresh cucumbers resulted in detentions during March at Burnac Produce Ltd., A. J. Lanzarotta Wholesale and Gambles Ontario Produce.