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Food Safety
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Garbage shortage driving rats indoors
TORONTO – The rats are coming. With Covid-19 causing restaurants, hotels and other industries to close or slow operations down, there is less garbage on the streets waiting for pickup. For rats, this means their daily smorgasbord or leftover delights…
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Livestock carcasses commercially converted to fertilizer
PONOKA, Alta. – A Canadian technology targeting global markets has successfully completed commercial scale processing of livestock carcass by-products into fertilizers at the Lethbridge Biogas biorefining plant. This new thermal hydrolysis and fractionation process transforms animal by-products and food waste,…
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“Opinion” Retailers Can’t Duck Food Safety Issues When Pushing Growers to Re-use Crates
A third, more extensive testing of plastic crates used to ship fresh produce throughout Canada shows some handling improvements but still found sanitary issues such as high total aerobic and yeast and mould counts, and the presence of E. coli. Studies demonstrating…