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Byline: MARTIN SCANLON, KEES PLAIZIER, RICK HOLLEY Lead Martin Scanlon and Rick Holley are professors in food and human nutritional sciences at the University of Manitoba. Kees Plaizier is a [...]

Byline: KAREN HOWLETT TORONTO -- Rick Holley, a food-safety expert at the University of Manitoba, long suspected that the frozen chicken nuggets sold at his local grocery store might be [...]

Byline: CARLY WEEKS Canadians have grown accustomed to hearing about food recalls initiated because of fears over salmonella, E. coli or other bacterial contamination. But hepatitis A seemed an unlikely [...]

Byline: CARLY WEEKS cweeks@globeandmail.com For the past few weeks, anxiety over the Zika virus has been ratcheting up in Canada, although federal health officials say it's a low risk to [...]

Byline: JOHN COTTER; The Canadian Press FOOD SAFETY EDMONTON -- The federal government is proposing to give itself the power to fine meat-processing plants that break hygiene and other operating [...]

Byline: RENATA D'ALIESIO FOOD SAFETY Senior federal agriculture officials discussed paying an Alberta slaughterhouse millions of dollars for its tainted beef to help the struggling company and cushion the economic [...]

Byline: Brenda Bouw 5/13 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE / VENTURE Watching Iotron Industries' irradiation technology in action brings back memories of Star Trek episodes from the 1960s. Here at the company's flagship [...]

Byline: RENATA D'ALIESIO TAINTED MEAT The Alberta slaughterhouse at the centre of a widespread E. coli outbreak last year was flagged for serious sanitation, maintenance and training problems in the [...]

Byline: JOHN COTTER; The Canadian Press BEEF RECALL Veteran cattleman George Graham has a common-sense solution for how to prevent a repeat of an E. coli outbreak and extensive product [...]

Byline: DIANA MEHTA; The Canadian Press FOOD SAFETY The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is urging the public to check all ground beef products in their freezers as a country-wide recall [...]

Byline: ANNE-MARIE TOBIN; The Canadian Press FOOD-BORNE ILLNESS Generations of neophyte bakers have shrugged off parental warnings about how eating raw cookie dough could make them sick to their stomachs. [...]

Byline: JESSICA LEEDER PUBLIC HEALTH GLOBAL FOOD REPORTER All five of Canada's federal political parties have promised to beef up food safety if elected in May, but their pledges aren't [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE FOOD SAFEY OTTAWA -- As the Canadian Food Inspection Agency moves to update 21st-century global food practices, critics worry that Canada's ability to protect citizens from domestic [...]

Byline: GLORIA GALLOWAY FOOD OTTAWA -- The amount of imported food landing on Canadian dinner plates is growing, but the federal agency responsible for inspecting what Canadians eat relies to [...]

Byline: ANNA MEHLER PAPERNY LISTERIOSIS The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is defending its food-safety track record, saying its Canadian plants get as much attention as U.S. exporters that see inspectors [...]

Byline: CARLY WEEKS STUDY / INSPECTION SYSTEMS Canada's food-safety system is broken, despite a massive independent investigation launched by the federal government in the wake of a deadly listeriosis outbreak, [...]

Byline: CARLY WEEKS FOOD SAFETY Canadian retailers pulled several brands of wieners off store shelves yesterday, and consumers were warned not to eat them, after Maple Leaf Foods said they [...]

Byline: JOSH WINGROVE A child remained in serious condition in the Hospital for Sick Children last night, the worst of 209 suspected E. coli cases related to a single Harvey's [...]

Byline: JOSH WINGROVE; With reports from The Canadian Press Health officials think they're near the end of an E. coli outbreak in North Bay, saying yesterday the numbers of both [...]

Byline: KAREN HOWLETT There has been a stunning increase in the number of products pulled from the country's grocery stores and fast-food restaurants due to contamination by a sometimes deadly [...]

Byline: KAREN HOWLETT AND CAROLINE ALPHONSO The listeria outbreak that has claimed 16 lives across Canada widened yesterday as a grocery retailer in Quebec and a cheese maker in Ontario [...]

Byline: CARLY WEEKS First, it was deli meats, then mushrooms. The list of foods Canadians are being warned about grew longer yesterday after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced a [...]