fyi > Issues July 8, 2008

Issues

Quotes:
Pushmi-pullyu
New 'made in Canada' food labels start Jan. 1
Food and Consumer Safety Action Plan
Food industry policing itself risky: experts
Mad cuts?
Discussion Paper on Canada’s Food and Consumer Safety Action Plan

Questions:
The Pushmi-pullyu is a fictional creature that when it tries to move, both heads try to go in opposite directions.

Which of the directions of Government of Canada has priority, those flowing from that will see New 'made in Canada' food labels start Jan. 1 and the Food and Consumer Safety Action Plan  which promises "preventing problems in the first place" or changes in regulations that will have the Food industry policing itself and which led to an editorial Mad cuts? suggesting labelling include this statement, "The Government of Canada certifies that the packer says it complied with regulations."?

Timing may be taken as an indication of direction.  Can changes accepted in November but never published that are considered in the editorial as "Ottawa's decision to save money by moving to an American-style system that lets food processors and packers do more of the actual inspections themselves." be considered as the genesis of the government "proposing an authority that would allow for the recognition of comparable foreign inspection systems and results." in the Discussion Paper on Canada’s Food and Consumer Safety Action Plan?