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Critics of nation's food safety system say that it is too fragmented and marked by overlapping authority, and they say that may help explain why dangerous foods keep slipping through and why contamination scares are handled in sometimes inconsistent ways.
OTTAWA -- Canada lags behind the rest of the world in its systems for ensuring food and products are safe and the federal government plans to bring in sweeping new measures, from substantial fines to more safety inspectors to bring the country up to speed, Health Minister Tony Clement said Wednesday.
As a constructer of the food safety tracking system, AeroInfo expects such a great-scale application will drive the development of RFID technology and solve some key problems
More than 13 months before the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology reported that Viagra had been linked to a rare form of blindness, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety officer reported the same findings, based on monitoring the agency's adverse event reporting system.
Botulism used to be a big problem in low-acid canned foods until the FDA issued rules for dealing with them properly. If it’s still a problem, it’s either because companies are not following standard food safety procedures or because their systems failed and nobody noticed.