Walmart Canada says a third-party supplier that weighed and labelled meat products for its Richmond, B.C., store took immediate "corrective action" when it was made aware some products were being priced incorrectly    Darryl Greer - The Canadian Press Walmart, Sobeys and Loblaw Companies were hit with a class-action lawsuit last week alleging they "misrepresented" the weight of meat by including the weight of packaging in prices.  Walmart Canada says ...

Frankfurt am Main, 15 January 2025. IFFA is set to focus on issues crucial to the future of the meat and protein industry when it opens from 3 to 8 May 2025     Under the motto ‘Rethinking Meat and Proteins’, this leading international trade fair will present a comprehensive overview of the value chain – from processing and packaging to innovative ingredients and the latest point-of-sale trends. The exhibition halls ...

British Columbia ostrich farmers ordered to cull a herd of 400 due to an avian flu outbreak are holding onto hope that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency will change its mind before their kill date in just over two weeks     The federal agency sent Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. a notice on Dec. 31 instructing their ostriches to be destroyed and disposed of by Feb. 1, but the owners ...

The people who produce our food need support – especially in the areas of mental and physical well-being – to recover from increasingly widespread wildfire, scientists have found   Trina Kleist - University of California The federal Farm Bill could help, but it is languishing in Congress. An extension of the previous Farm Bill was passed in late December. Postdoctoral researcher Natalia Pinzon Jimenez used surveys to hone in on ...

Pork producers in Saskatchewan are monitoring what appears to be an increase in reproductive diseases in other parts of North America and taking steps to keep those infections out of their herds. by Bruce Cochrane - Farmscape.ca Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome or PRRS, an infection which causes reproductive failure, pneumonia and increased susceptibility to secondary bacterial infection, was first identified in the United States in 1987. Florian Possberg, a partner with ...

Smithfield Foods on Monday made public its paperwork for its New York initial public offering as the maker of Farmland bacon and Farmer John sausages prepares for its U.S. stock market return after more than a decade  CBC News Hong Kong-based WH Group, the world's largest pork producer that took Smithfield private in 2013 for $4.7 billion, will sell some of its shares in the Virginia-based company in the offering, ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says seven poultry farms in southwestern Ontario are under quarantine due to an avian flu outbreak  CBC News These include four farms near Ingersoll, two in Strathroy and one in North Middlesex County. The first cases were detected on Dec. 14, 2024, and officials say the virus was transmitted to the area through migratory birds. "The source is generally migratory birds, so it's usually spread through ...