A research funding group consisting of Genome Alberta, Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency, Genome Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ontario Genomics Institute, and Genome Quebec, is banding together to combat Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PEDV). PEDV kills young piglets at an astonishing rate with a near 100 per …

Experts anticipate more than $40 billion in food product imports this year, a rising figure due to several factors says a new report. The recent closures of several Ontario food processing plants, such as Kellogg Co., have resulted in an increase in cereal imports of 18%. The weakened Canadian currency will see increased prices on food products of 0.7% to …

Chinese retailers want to stock more Canadian foods, but Canadian exporters are being largely out-flanked by competitors in getting space on supermarket shelves and exposure on China’s e-commerce sites, concludes a report released by the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI). The report is based on CAPI’s networking trip to China last November that introduced Canadian companies and organizations to selected …

UNBAKED CAKE CO. SERVES UP VEGAN SWEETS Text by Michael Markov Liz Gallagher is the driving force behind Unbaked Cake Co. Unlike most pastry companies, Unbaked Cake Co. serves only raw, vegan, organic desserts. The small Toronto-based business is the byproduct of Gallagher’s passion for healthy cuisine. After being introduced to raw food through a friend at university, Gallagher started …

The Canadian Poultry Research Council manages research under four interlinked categories to address issues from all stakeholders Text by Nicolas Heffernan Think of Canada’s poultry cluster as a big wheel. The spokes are different research projects, funding mechanisms and communication channels that reach out to industry, academia and government. But at the centre of it all is the Canadian Poultry …

FOR FOOD AND NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS Feral Temelli* | Marleny D.A. Saldaña INTRODUCTION Based on the significant developments in research and know-how in the area of supercritical fluid technology over the past three decades, supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) extraction and fractionation of natural ingredients have become main stream operations in the rapidly growing functional food and natural health products industry, …

modelling, computer simulation and things you probably never knew about David Pink1,2  | Michael Nickerson3 Before Alberta Einstein made it big, he served as a clerk in a Swiss Patent Office in Bern Switzerland around 1903, during which time he logged in the patent for Toblerone bar for its characteristic triangular prism shape resembling that of the Swiss Alps. Since …

by Richard A. Holley Canada was an “early adopter” of food irradiation, but its status in Canada has remained unchanged for almost 50 years. This article explores reasons for maintenance of the status quo and offers a glimpse of how irradiation can be strategically used to improve the safety of food and the health of Canadians. CURRENT SITUATION If government …

In recent years, an enormous amount of attention has been paid to food labels. We know that Health Canada is looking at labels as it modernizes our food labeling system. We also know that consumers are looking at labels; all food trend forecasting tells us that consumers are more interested than ever with how food is made and where ingredients …

The Nutrition Facts table on food items in the grocery store may soon look very different, resembling nutrition labels in the United States. Health Canada, which proposed these changes to the current table, says the goal is to “provide Canadians with the nutrition information they need to make informed decisions about the foods they buy.” The new table gives more …