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Feds Giving More than $6 Million for Safety at Food Processing Plants

The federal government is giving $6.1 million through the Emergency Processing Fund to 34 food processing companies in southwestern Ontario to invest in safety...

How to Communicate the Benefits of GMOs in Potato Production

Have your neighbours or family members ever asked you why you use pesticides? Why you plant GMO crops? It’s a difficult question to answer...

Australia, New Zealand Rule Two GM Potato Lines Safe

The Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) organization have evaluated two genetically modified (GM) potato lines and have ruled they are safe for human...

Top Grade

PEI Potato Solutions provides farmers with technology to achieve higher grades, and expansion is coming. It’s been five years since Austin Roberts and his wife...

U.K. crisps and biscuits to become paler under food safety crackdown

Biscuits and crisps in the U.K. will lose their golden brown colour due to new rules forcing manufacturers to reduce a chemical found in burnt...

Public trust in Canada’s food system

Rebuilding trust in food and farming a “very serious” issue. “Very serious” – that’s how United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) general manager Kevin MacIsaac...

Feds Giving More than $6 Million for Safety at Food Processing Plants

The federal government is giving $6.1 million through the Emergency Processing Fund to 34 food processing companies in southwestern Ontario to invest in safety...

How to Communicate the Benefits of GMOs in Potato Production

Have your neighbours or family members ever asked you why you use pesticides? Why you plant GMO crops? It’s a difficult question to answer...

Australia, New Zealand Rule Two GM Potato Lines Safe

The Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) organization have evaluated two genetically modified (GM) potato lines and have ruled they are safe for human...

Top Grade

PEI Potato Solutions provides farmers with technology to achieve higher grades, and expansion is coming. It’s been five years since Austin Roberts and his wife...

U.K. crisps and biscuits to become paler under food safety crackdown

Biscuits and crisps in the U.K. will lose their golden brown colour due to new rules forcing manufacturers to reduce a chemical found in burnt...

Public trust in Canada’s food system

Rebuilding trust in food and farming a “very serious” issue. “Very serious” – that’s how United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) general manager Kevin MacIsaac...