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Thursday 30 April 2015


The XL Foods Saga Continues:


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Robert Fife reports on documents revealing food inspection problems at the former XL Foods plant in Alberta continued in 2014.

“Outcome Based” Regulations – The Canadian Regulatory Modernization Concept

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Posted By Felix Amiri
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Felix Amiri is the current Food Sector Chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection

Tuesday 21 April 2015

Operation Improvement Beyond Mundane


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Posted by Felix Amiri
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Felix Amiri is currently the chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection, and a sworn SSQA advocate.

Friday 17 April 2015

Ready or Not!

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Posted By Felix Amiri
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Felix Amiri is the current Food Sector Chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection

Wednesday 15 April 2015

Letting Wisdom Prevail over Euphoria:

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Felix Amiri is currently the chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection, and a sworn SSQA advocate.

Saturday 4 April 2015

USDA Announces Close to $19 million Food Safety Research Grants

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2016:

President's 2017 Budget Request Will Propose to Fully Fund USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, Doubling Amount That Was Available in 2016

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2015

USDA Awards 36 Food Safety Grants, Including $6.7 Million for Antimicrobial Resistance, to Protect Consumers

This announcement provides a refreshing direction of focus. At a time when food business operators are made to believe that product safety and quality management challenges can be resolved through the creation of large volumes of administrative paperwork, the idea to fund meaningful research is well worth celebrating. Targeted research is right in line with the proposals for collaborative solution-finding under the SSQA Concept.


The following projects were selected for awards:
  • Enhancing Food Safety through Improved Processing Technologies
  • Effective Mitigation Strategies for Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Identifying and Targeting Food Safety Needs
  • Improving Food Safety
  • Improving Food Quality
 The list of universities that received the grants. 
 Posted By Felix Amiri
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Felix Amiri is the current Food Sector Chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection

Friday 3 April 2015

Comparing Regulatory Clauses from Different Jurisdictions

Food business operators must regularly engage in regulation tracking. A simple chart can be helpful to quickly track and compare the food regulations from different jurisdictions like Canada, the US and the EU. I once gave this exercise to my Food Regulations course students at Conestoga College. You may Download the example of the chart given to the students.

The chart can be easily modified or expanded by adding columns for additional jurisdictions and more rows for additional regulatory subjects. You will find that this chart quickly becomes a living and very helpful document if properly managed and actively updated.

 Posted By Felix Amiri
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Felix Amiri is the current Food Sector Chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection