By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup for Monday May 16, 2022

May 16, 2022 | 12:10 PM

MELFORT, Sask. – Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food met with other G7 Agriculture Ministers in Stuttgart, Germany on Friday and Saturday to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Marie-Claude Bibeau said to reduce price volatility and fight global hunger, Canada will double its funding to the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS).

“This investment will give countries new information about fertilizers and other inputs to more effectively navigate global agricultural markets in times of crises,” Bibeau said. “Germany and the United States have also officially followed suit and other countries are preparing to do so.”

Bibeau said the G7 Ministers agreed to continue to work towards sustainable and resilient agriculture and food systems globally.

She said the world must produce more food in a manner that is sustainable environmentally, economically, and socially.

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“Resilient food systems are essential to ensuring global food security and nutrition. Focusing on the need to increase productivity and leveraging innovative ideas to support farmers will be key to achieving this goal,” Bibeau said.

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Saskatchewan has extended an animal health control order to stop the spread of avian influenza.

This means the co-mingling of poultry will be prohibited until at least June 14.

This prevents the movement of birds and participation of birds in shows, auctions, and agricultural fairs, as well as other events where birds would be brought together from multiple locations.

CFIA also confirmed avian influenza in a small flock in the RM of Aberdeen in Saskatchewan and Foothills County and the County of Two Hills in Alberta.

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Canadian laws prohibit the misrepresentation of food. Mislabelling, adulteration, and substitution of food are forms of misrepresentation and may constitute food fraud.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is helping ensure food is properly labelled and safe to consume, and that businesses can compete fairly in the Canadian marketplace.

The newly published Food Fraud Annual Report outlines the results of its enhanced surveillance activities to test the authenticity of honey, fish, olive oil, other expensive oils such as, sesame seed oil, grapeseed oil, and coconut oil, and spices.

Overall, CFIA’s testing showed four of the five commodities had satisfactory results above 87 per cent while expensive oils other than olive oil had 66 per cent satisfactory results.

The five foods studies were selected as they are commonly reported as products likely to be misrepresented.

In instances where the results were unsatisfactory, the CFIA took corrective or enforcement action, including products being removed from Canada, or their detention, destruction, or relabelling.

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