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Maple Leaf Food Safety Symposium “Enhancing Our Knowledge and
Capabilities to Produce Safer Food”
Supply Management for Pork and Beef in Canada
EU Blocks US Call For WTO Poultry Import Ban Investigation
Call To Suspend US Poultry Farm Loans
Imports To Cover Pork, Chicken Shortage Likely - Philippines
Members Of The International Poultry Council Have Been Re-elected
Free-Range and Organic Chicken More Likely to Carry Campylobacter
Notice to
Importers for Eggs and Egg Products
Giuseppe Caminiti Moves to
CHEP
Bruce McCullagh VP
Marketing at Pinty's
New Associate
Member Gridpath Solutions Inc.
Conferences, Courses and
Workshops
Maple Leaf Food Safety Symposium “Enhancing Our Knowledge and
Capabilities to Produce Safer Food”
On October 23rd, Maple Leaf hosted a ground breaking symposium to
reinforce the message of food safety as a non-competitive issue. Over
100 Maple Leaf competitors and customers, government officials and
academia met in the impressive ThinkFOOD! Centre in Mississauga for an
informative day of lectures from government policy makers, risk
assessors, foodborne illness experts, Listeria researchers and Maple
Leaf’s own Director of Food Safety, Dr. Randy Huffman. This was the
first of what Maple Leaf hopes will be many symposia of this nature. The
presentations from the day were recorded and available for viewing
through a webcast. Contact Erica at Council office for information
(ericacharlton@cpepc.ca)
Supply Management for Pork and Beef in Canada
Recent discussions about a supply management scheme for pork and beef in
Canada have generated significant interest in investigating this option
further. However, it is critically important to understand the full
implications of this type of marketing scheme in order to ensure
informed dialogue.
Al Mussell, Senior Research Analyst at the George Morris Centre, has
prepared a report on current and alternative marketing structures in the
beleaguered pork and beef segments. The following is an excerpt from
Supply Management in Beef and Pork: Understanding the Broader Context.
The Canadian beef and pork segments are experiencing a period of severe
and prolonged difficulty, with exceptionally low margins, mounting
financial liabilities and general economic stress. These issues relate
to a range of factors, including softened demand for red meat,
relatively strong Canadian currency, mandatory Country of Origin
Labeling in the US, and higher feed costs, driven in part by demand from
ethanol manufacturing.
In this environment of desperation, there appears to be a renewed
interest in supply management and measures involving licensing of
production capacity. However, as part of a much-need evaluation of
alternatives in beef and pork, the full implications of supply
management schemes must be understood to allow the discussion to evolve.
Thus, the intent of this paper is to consider supply management as an
alternative to the existing mechanisms in beef and pork marketing. The
objectives are as follows:
To provide an overview of the initial conditions that led to the
adoption of supply management
To consider the marketing conditions favorable to a supply management
scheme relative to those in beef and pork
To consider the trade policy instruments necessary for a supply
management scheme in beef and pork
To assess the efficacy of a supply management scheme for beef and pork
The full report is available to George Morris Centre members at:
www.georgemorris.org
EU Blocks US Call For WTO Poultry Import Ban Investigation
The EU has blocked US efforts to have the World Trade Organization
decide whether its ban on imports of US poultry break global trade
rules, reports Bloomberg. The EU won’t be able to prevent a second
request.
The EU forbids a poultry cleaning technique called pathogen-reduction
treatments, which is used in the US. The US lodged a complaint against
the ban in January, saying no scientific evidence backs up the EU
argument that the use of the treatments poses a health risk. On 8
October, the US announced that it would ask WTO judges to rule on the
case.
Bloomberg reports that the EU halted imports of US poultry products in
April 1997. Annual shipments of chicken and poultry to the 27-nation EU
from US producers such as Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride, and Sanderson Farms
would top $300 mln if the bloc lifted its ban, according to the National
Chicken Council.
The European Commission states that it applies the same rules to
domestic and imported poultry and denies it discriminates against the
US. If WTO judges back the Obama administration, the EU will have to end
the ban or face retaliation on its products.
Under the WTO’s dispute rules, the EU can fend off the first US request
to set up a panel of judges to rule on the complaint. It can’t block a
second request, which typically comes a month later.
www.worldpoultry.net
Call To Suspend US Poultry Farm Loans
"Over $264 mln in the past 2 years has been dumped into new and
expanding hog and poultry facilities as prices remain low and oversupply
persists," says the Land Stewardship Project website.
Based on USDA data, FSA direct and guaranteed loans for new hog and
poultry building construction for fiscal years 2008 and 2009 totalled
$264,466,341, according to the press release.
The depressed prices in livestock markets is so alarming that USDA over
the past 10 months has employed a strategy of conducting bonus pork and
poultry buys in an attempt to stabilize and lift prices. USDA to date
has purchased $55 mln and $42 mln worth of surplus pork and poultry,
respectively, in an effort to provide assistance to these stressed
livestock markets.
“This cycle of promoting the expansion of corporate livestock production
with taxpayer money, then bailing out the industry because of
overproduction with taxpayer money is an irresponsible practice and must
come to an end,” said Rhonda Perry, Howard County, Mo., livestock and
grain farmer and Program Director of the Missouri Rural Crisis Center.
“You can’t justify loans for new operations and more livestock when the
current hog farmers are barely treading water or are going out of
business all together.”
“Advancing a directive to suspend direct and guaranteed loans for
specialized hog and poultry facilities is a concrete action USDA can
take, and now is the time,” said Perry. “Farmers are struggling and this
would at least stop taxpayer funds from further contributing to
corporate overproduction and low prices and free up funds for farm
families who will need to rely on USDA loans this year.”
www.worldpoultry.net
Imports To Cover Pork, Chicken Shortage Likely - Philippines
The government has allowed the private sectors to import pork and
chicken meat, to cover the shortage of supply in Luzon, an official of
the Department of Agriculture said yesterday. Agriculture department
Assistant Secretary Salvador Salacup said Luzon has been experiencing
tight supply of pork since September because of the diseases that hit
the swine industry in 2007 and 2008. Mr. Salacup told The Manila Times
that Luzon’s pork supply is short by 20,000 metric tons (MT). To cover
the scarcity, he said the government has allowed the private sector to
source its supply from the Visayas, Mindanao as well as abroad under the
Minimum Access Volume (MAV) 35-per cent tariff level. “We encourage the
private sector to bring in 15,000 metric tons of pork from the United
States, Canada and neighbouring Asian countries,” he said, adding that
“even before the typhoons hit the country, the private sector had
already warned of supply tightness.”
www.thepoultrysite.com
World Egg Day took place on 9 October. Countries around the globe
celebrated the fantastic egg. The International Egg Commission reports
on some of the events that took place around the world in celebration.
A "breakfast drop" was arranged in Australia; all leading TV and radio
shows received an egg breakfast on the morning of World Egg Day.
Australian egg consumers were invited to take part in an on-line
competition, in which they had to look at egg based recipes and identify
the missing ingredients.
In Argentina egg celebrations took place throughout the week. Media
coverage was generated on national TV and radio. TV programmes received
baskets of eggs and information explaining the benefits of eating eggs,
and radio stations were sent cakes in the shapes of eggs with a
selection of egg based recipe ideas.
Turkey held events in shopping centres and universities throughout the
country to raise the profile of eggs. Conferences were also organised,
informing the public about the nutritional benefits of eggs, and
delicious egg based meals were available for people to taste.
The next World Egg Day will take place on Friday 8 October, 2010.
www.worldpoultry.net
Members Of The International Poultry Council Have Been Re-elected
Members of the International Poultry Council (IPC) re-elected all
members of its executive committee for another term, and also approved
expanding the committee by one delegate.
During the IPC annual meeting this week in Sydney, Jim Sumner, president
of the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council was re-elected as president of
the organization. Joining Sumner on the executive committee are Tage
Lysgaard of a.v.e.c., the European Poultry Association, first vice
president; Ricardo Santin of ABEF, the Brazilian Association of Poultry
Producers and Exporters, second vice president; Cesar de Anda of UNA,
the Mexican Poultry Producers Association, treasurer; and at-large
members, Dr. Mohammed el-Shafei of Egypt and Dr. Wang Xiulin of the
China Poultry Association.
Meanwhile, IPC members approved Dr. Vivien Kite, deputy executive
director of the Australian Chicken Meat Federation, as an additional
at-large member of the executive committee.
Headquartered in Paris, the IPC was organized in 2005 as a cooperative
forum for the world’s poultry-producing countries. The organization is
comprised of 23 countries representing approximately 85 percent of the
world’s poultry production, and nearly 96 percent of global trade in
poultry meat. IPC also has a growing number of associate members, which
includes poultry companies from around the world. Canada is a founding
member represented by CPEPC, FPPAC and CARI.
Companies interested in associate membership are encouraged to contact
Executive Secretary George Winn at
gaw@ellijay.com.
Free-Range and Organic Chicken More Likely to Carry Campylobacter
UK Food Standards Agency study: Deadly food bug more prevalent in
organic, free-range chicken
A deadly food bug, which kills 70 people every year, is present in
nearly two-thirds of all chicken on sale in supermarkets and butchers,
according to the Food Standards Agency.
UK--Free-range and organic chicken are more likely to carry the
campylobacter bug, the food watchdog warned – a blow for those that
believe high animal welfare methods should produce healthier food.
Campylobacter is a bacteria that causes 55,000 people to fall ill every
year, with symptoms including diarrhea, cramping and abdominal pain.
Last year 70 died from the illness, the report into the bacteria
suggested. The illness, which can be prevented by properly cooking meat,
usually lasts one week, although some people do not show any symptoms.
The levels of campylobacter in chicken remain almost unchanged since the
agency's last survey in 2001 and Andrew Wadge, director of food safety
at the FSA, said it showed more action needs to be taken by the poultry
industry.
Study (4th
paragraph, page 2)
- OFAC I-Watch
Notice to
Importers for Eggs and Egg Products
Eggs - Notice to Importers of Egg and Egg products - DEADLINE:
DECEMBER 4, 2009
Same as in 2009 - Graders have to indicate IP declarations in Box
12.
Giuseppe Caminiti Moves to
CHEP
Giuseppe Caminiti will be joining the Canadian Hatching Egg Producers (CHEP)
as their General Manager on November 13th. Gyslain Loyer, CHEP’s
Chairman stated in his announcement that “Giuseppe brings a wealth of
experience and knowledge of the poultry industry to our national
office”. In his communication to CPEPC members, Robin Horel, noted that
Council will work out transition with CHEP in a cooperative manner in
order to allow Giuseppe to become full time in his new role as soon as
possible.
Although CPEPC members and staff will miss Giuseppe’s direct
contribution to our council, we look forward to working with him in his
new role as CHEP’s General Manager. Congratulations and best of luck in
your new endeavor!
Bruce McCullagh VP
Marketing at Pinty's
Randy Cain, President,
Pinty’s Delicious Foods Inc., is very pleased to announce the appointment of Bruce McCullagh to the
role of Vice President of Marketing at Pinty's.
In this role Bruce will take on responsibility for the company's
strategic marketing direction towards increasing its focus and presence in the marketplace. Bruce will lead
the Retail & Food Service Marketing segments and provide executive
direction and oversight to Pinty's
R & D and Quality Assurance functions.
Bruce has over 20 years of management experience in consumer packaged
goods with specific expertise in marketing and sales, most recently with
Maple Leaf Foods, and is well recognized in the food industry as a
respected and credible leader.
New Associate
Member Gridpath Solutions Inc.
Gridpath Solutions Inc. is dedicated to the introduction and
promotion of “High Pressure Processing” technology into the food
industry.
Rick Marshall
Gridpath Solutions Inc.
328 Glover Road
Stoney Creek, Ontario
L8E 5M3
O:905-643-0955
C:905-531-1619
E-mail:
rmarshall@gridpathinc.com
Conferences, Courses and Workshops
CPCFSE will have an interactive booth at the upcoming Royal Agricultural
Winter Fair in the Journey to Your Good Health exhibit. There they will
be conveying their messaging to consumers about safe food handling
practices, offering free giveaways and unveiling the new two minute
video on safe food handling practices for consumers. Drama students from
Sheridan College will also present a daily skit portraying safe food
handling practices for the younger audience. The booth provides the
opportunity to motivate and inspire up to 33,000 people to take the four
core safe food handling messages home, back to their community and
influence the reduction of microbial foodborne illness in Canada. If you
plan to attend the Royal Winter Fair, don’t forget to stop by. CPEPC’s
Technical Director, Erica Charlton will be volunteering at the booth on
Thursday, November 12 from 3-9 pm.
Members of CPEPC are permitted to license the Be Food Safe icons (Clean,
Separate, Cook and Chill) at no cost. Visit the Be Food Safe website at
www.befoodsafe.ca or contact
Erica at the Council office for more information.
(ericacharlton@cpepc.ca)
AG CONNECT provides a world-class collaborative event that connects all
sectors of the industry through exhibits, education and networking with
a global perspective. Held at the Orange County Convention Center in
Orlando, Florida January 13-15, 2010, the U.S. Commercial Service will
provide assistance to Canadian agricultural businesses interested in
attending.
Companies interested in joining the Canadian delegation will receive:
Official welcome briefing for Canadians -
Complimentary entry to the exhibition -
One free education seminar -
Business-to-Business matchmaking -
Discount on offsite industry visits -
Access to the ITC which includes: private meeting rooms interpreter services for language assistance lounge area with refreshments phone, fax and internet services Assistance with hotel bookings Local support from Agricultural Specialist in Calgary
For more information, or to register for the Canadian Official Buyers
Delegation at AG Connect, please visit
http://www.buyusa.gov/canada/en/agconnect2010.html,
or contact Crystal Roberts, Tel: 403-265-2116, e-mail:
crystal.roberts@mail.doc.gov.
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Canadian Partnership for Consumer Food Safety Education will be at
the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, November 6-15