Foodborne illness outbreaks result when two or more persons develop similar symptoms of illness (gastroenteritis) after eating a common food, or become ill after consuming food from a common source. Such events occur relatively frequently ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) plans to create 16 Centres of Expertise across Canada to provide industry and CFIA inspectors with better, more consistent access to information and advice. This initiative was announced by ...
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Canada has changed the import requirements of aquatic animals such as finfish, molluscs, and crustaceans, in an effort to protect the country's aquatic animal resources. Beginning 10 December 2012, the aquatic animals shipments will ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA)has started collecting and testing wild salmon off the coast of British Columbia to determine the presence of three salmon diseases:infectious hematopoietic necrosis,infectious pancreatic necrosis ...
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