Ottawa Wanted US To Accept More Lenient Meat Inspections

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Ottawa wanted U.S. to accept more lenient meat inspection regime

BILL CURRY

From Friday's Globe and Mail

August 29, 2008 at 4:37 AM EDT

OTTAWA — The Canadian government strongly opposed tougher U.S. rules to prevent listeria and lobbied the United States to accept Canada's more lenient standards, internal documents reveal.

Briefing notes prepared by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for an April 7, 2006, meeting with the board of directors of the Canadian Meat Council outline how both industry and the Canadian government were frustrated with the increased precautions the United States was demanding.

Specifically, Canada opposed daily inspection visits and the testing of finished products for Listeria monocytogenes.


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