Another Meat Scare

Federal inspectors have shut down another Alberta meatpacker only hours after Parliament enacted new legislation promising “stronger” enforcement of food safety. Royal Assent for the food safety bill came amid the closure of an Edmonton plant over a Listeria scare, a bacterium that Health Canada warns may “in serious cases” lead to brain infection and death.

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