The CFIA can impose fines of up to $15,000 per offence. No fines or other penalties were issued in the cases, including one that took four months to fully resolve.

The federal food regulator said it “took action” in each case and that, in all of them, the grocers fixed the problem.

  • bowreality@lemmy.ca
    11·
    5 days ago

    Not surprised at all. Telus, Bell and Rogers can also do whatever they want.

    I will continue to read labels on products. No store signage, no app is to be trusted. Anything that doesn’t clearly state where it is made or comes from I won’t buy.

    I’ll also ramp up my efforts to cut out retailers as much as possibly. Several companies ship (Simps, Attitude, Uncle Bob’s, etc). For produce and meats I buy from farm stands, farmers markets and farmers directly. Stuff is fresher and the farmer gets more money anyways. Like this weekend I only bought lemons and bananas in the supermarket, all the other veg and fruit came from farm stands. One farm stand is open from April to December so that’s covering quite a bit of the year. Our meat we buy almost exclusively from two ranches in the area. Only ham and salami from the store. I wish there was more dairy sold locally by farms I would buy that too.

    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
      4·
      4 days ago

      Dairy is over regulated thanks to the milk cartel in Canada.

      Other countries in Europe get by just fine without selling ultrapasteurized and homogenized milk, and hard and over ripened cheese only. The industry could benefit from some balkanization here.

      • bowreality@lemmy.ca
        1·
        4 days ago

        You are right. That bugs the hell out of me. Europe is so much cheaper and have better product/more variety. The prices are nuts. In the last few months it went up again several times.