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Food safety tips
Food safety experts recommend using a food thermometer that gives an actual temperature reading, not just a range.
Turkey safety important
Turkey is an important part of many holiday celebrations and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control has some tips to help you prepare turkey safely.
Follow these tips for a safe turkey dinner
Turkey is an important part of many holiday celebrations, and the BC Centre for Disease Control has some tips to help you prepare turkey safely. Proper food handling is especially important because turkey can be contaminated with bacteria like Salmonella. Salmonella can cause stomach cramps, diarrhea, fever, nausea, vomiting, dehydration - and lead to more serious complications, especially in infants and the elderly. As many as 650,000 people become ill due to foodborne illness in B.C. each year.
Recall for city biz
Burnaby company Golden Boy Foods Ltd. is voluntarily recalling its Golden Boy brand in-shell mixed nuts because they may be contaminated with salmonella.
Irradiation and the fight against food bacteria
Shannon Lambie had never planted garlic before. So when she asked what she thought was a simple question, she got an answer that surprised her. As a volunteer with the Edible Garden Project in North Vancouver, Lambie was recently visiting Loutet Farm with local elementary school students. The group was learning about garlic: its lifecycle, how to cook it, and how it grows. After learning how garlic can grow from garlic bulbs planted in soil, Lambie asked one of the Loutet farmers if any garlic clove from store-bought garlic would work for planting. The answer was no.
Years of neglect being corrected
Canadians are well aware of the national beef recall which has implicated XL Foods, an Alberta-based meat processing facility.
Local shop sees boost in wake of beef recall
While many local shoppers may be taking steak off their grocery lists this month in response to the XL Foods Inc. beef recall, not all meat vendors have felt the pinch.
Butcher says, find out more about the meat you're buying
While many local shoppers may be taking steak off their grocery lists this month as the XL Foods Inc. beef recall continued to expand, not all meat vendors have felt the pinch.
You can get E. coli from eating fruit and vegetables, not just meat
Re: "Stop eating meat to reduce E. coli risk," letter to the editor, Friday, Oct. 12.
Always handle food with care
The recall of Alberta beef from the XL Foods Inc. plant in Brooks has highlighted the need for people to take care when handling food.
Always handle food with care
The recall of Alberta beef from the XL Foods Inc. plant in Brooks has highlighted the need for people to take care when handling food.
Stop eating meat to reduce E. coli risk
Having suffered from a horrible case of salmonella poisoning after eating a meaty sub when I was younger, I sympathize with all the people who were sickened by tainted meat from XL Foods, and I'm flabbergasted that the government's food safety programs have been so ineffective.
Omnibus bill put food safety at risk
In June, MP Randy Kamp chose to make significant cuts to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency by voting in favour of the Conservative omnibus budget bill.
Beef recall at thrifty foods
Thrifty Foods wishes to inform the public that its Tsawwassen store has been affected by the XL Foods beef recall due to the expansion of the recall to include whole cuts.
Dangerous steaks
WHEN one meat-processing plant supplies 40 per cent of all the beef consumed in Canada, any warning relative to the food safety of its products should receive immediate and serious attention.
Beef scare not over
Consumers who purchased beef in recent weeks should check the dates and packages, after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed the presence of E. coli O157: H7 bacteria in beef cuts shipped from the giant meat packer XL Foods in Brooks, Alta.
E. coli scare raises flags
Are cuts to the federal food inspection services impacting food safety in Canada?
E. coli should raise red flags
Are cuts to the federal food inspection services impacting food safety in Canada?
