By Kevin Hursh

Mexico and canaryseed

Mar 29, 2011 | 7:28 AM

The Mexican market continues to frustrate Canadian canaryseed exporters. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has been decreasing the allowable number of weed seeds in Canadian canaryseed exports, but we still haven’t been able to satisfy Mexican authorities. I’m told that virtually all of our export cargoes are being sent for re-cleaning in Mexico.

Cleavers has now been added to Mexico’s list of quarantine weed seeds, joining stinkweed, cow cockle and the wild buckwheat. It’s wild buckwheat that’s the most problematic.

David Knobbs of CanPulse Foods out of Kindersley recently returned from Mexico. He toured Mexican plants that were re-cleaning Canadian canaryseed.

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