“Third party certification provides an objective way of communicating your safety measures to your customer base.  Today our customers are more aware of what HACCP programs are and what HACCP programs can do.  Our own customers are bringing HACCP-based programs onto the farm and are increasingly sensitive to the safety programs their suppliers have in place.” 

Gary Golby, Champion Feed Services Ltd.

 


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Nevada Couple Pleads Guilty to Distributing Melamine-Tainted Gluten
Consumer Affairs
By Lisa Wade McCormick A Nevada couple pled guilty in federal court today to distributing melamine-tainted wheat gluten, the ingredient blamed for the illnesses of deaths of thousands dogs and cats nationwide during the massive 2007 pet food recall. ...
Video: Couple Pleads Guilty in Toxic Pet Food Case The Associated Press
Tainted pet food case brings two guilty pleas Bizjournals.com
Business Owners Plead Guilty to Distributing Tainted Ingredient ... eNews Park Forest
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Canola meal with salmonella traced to Bunge
Reuters
By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 12 (Reuters) - Two rail car shipments of canola meal from Bunge's Canadian crushing plants tested positive for salmonella after inspection by the US Food and Drug Administration at the border in May, Bunge Ltd (BG ...
Canadian Canola Shipments Inspected for Salmonella, COPA Says Bloomberg
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Cases 14, 15 don't change BSE risk level: CFIA
Manitoba Co-operator, Canada
The investigations into Canada's 14th and 15th cases of BSE-infected cattle have turned up no evidence that the country's cattle herd and beef consumers are at any greater risk. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Thursday released its reports on ...

Use of unapproved drugs violates sound process
Calgary Herald,  Canada
It's likely news to most Canadians that the wide-spread use of antibiotics in livestock includes unapproved drugs, but it's been on Health Canada's radar for at least seven years. And as the keeper of public health, the federal department needs to ...

FDA Announces Delay of BSE Final Rule Implementation
Kansas City infoZine, MO
The Food and Drug Administration announced a delay in the implementation of the final rule entitled, "Substances Prohibited from Use in Animal Food or Feed" or more commonly referred to as the 2008 BSE final rule. Washington, DC - infozine - The final ...

CFIA Launches Feed Investigation
CattleNetwork.com, KS
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has launched an investigation into potentially contaminated feed products from a rendering facility in Alberta. The safety of the Canadian food supply is not affected. The vast majority of the potentially ...

Source of salmonella outbreak found at Raisio Feed factory
Helsingin Sanomat, Finland
The cause of the recent salmonella outbreak that has hit Finnish pig and poultry farms has been found at a factory of the feed producer Raisio Feed. The salmonella bacteria that infected the feed produced at the factory was pinpointed to the cooling ...

Focus on new feed rules
Weekly Times Now, Australia
The aim of the new standard is to provide a supply chain based on animal-safe feed. The key object of the Federal Government program is to clarify the many standards that exist in Australia, not impose new obligations on feed producers. ...

Finland-Salmonella traced to animal feed mill.
Farming UK, UK
Fears are mounting in Finland that a strain of the Salmonella bacteria found in poultry feed may have been passed on to pig farms. The bacteria have now been detected in pig feed produced by feed producer Rehuraisio. Finnish Food Safety Authority EVIRA ...

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Salmonella Discovered in Poultry Feed
YLE News, Finland
A salmonella virus has been discovered in poultry feed manufactured by Rehuraisio. The virus is thought to be the Tennessee Salmonella strain discovered earlier this week at two egg farms. Production of the feed has been suspended and cleaning ...

Mad cow's path to brain discovered
MarketWatch (press release)
NAPLES, Italy, Mar 5, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- An Italian researcher said she's figured out how the human mad cow disease travels from the stomach to the brain. Chiara Zurzolo, a biology professor at Naples University, said the Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...

First animal injured in salmonella outbreak
USA Today - 6 Feb 2009
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY Officials in Oregon have confirmed the first cast of salmonella in a dog, the first time an animal has been injured in the ...

Dioxin Found in Milk from Dairy Farms in Northern Ireland
FLEXNEWS, France - 4 hours ago
Feb 6 - Milk from two dairy farms in Northern Ireland has been stopped from entering the food chain following test results that show dioxin levels above ...

China’s Melamine Woes Extend Into Seafood
Ag Weekly, ID - 26 Dec 2008
But shipments of filthy and contaminated fish from China continue to be detained at US ports, exposing holes in a food-safety system that analysts say are ...

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FDA Issues Guidances for Industry to Improve the Safety of Food ...
FDA.gov - 15 Jan 2009
The US Food and Drug Administration today issued three guidances designed to help ensure the safety of FDA-regulated products in the supply chain. ...
FDA issues final guidance on regulating GE animals TheMedGuru
FDA Issues Final Guidance On Genetically Engineered Animals RedOrbit
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Health Newstrack

Flour linked to Salmonella outbreak in New Zealand
Health Newstrack, India - 21 Dec 2008
Investigations into the outbreak of Salmonella typhimurium phage type 42 have found one detection of the bacteria in samples of flour taken from the home of ...

Ireland pork contamination: how it happened
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 7 Dec 2008
Concerns that Irish pork might have been contaminated with industrial chemicals were first raised last Monday during routine testing. ...

Previous BSE Case in Canada Linked to Commercial Feed
Wisconsin Ag Connection, WI - 37 minutes ago
CFIA's investigation of the case focused on both animals at the farm in question as well as feed products of which the BSE case animal had access. ...

Melamine fears spread to tainted animal feed
Globe and Mail, Canada - 31 Oct 2008
Reports that Chinese producers regularly add melamine to animal feed are sparking new fears that more Canadian products could be contaminated with the ...

GERMANY FINDS “FISHY” CHEMICALS IN CHILEAN SALMON
Patagonia Times, Chile - 21 Oct 2008
This is not the first time Chilean salmon has failed foreign inspections. Last year, Chilean salmon tested in Taiwan came up positive for malachite green, ...