There’s nothing like a major disaster to see how important whistleblowers are, and to expose the other half of the wrongdoers’ playbook. The tsunami that caused the meltdown at the Fukushima I Nuclear Plant is just such a disaster. In the piece below, we can see how a former governor of the Fukushima Prefecture, Sato [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/04/27/media-update-for-april-27-2011/
Advance warnings negate benefits of inspections: It seems that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is giving egg producers an easy ride when it comes to inspections. A blogger has posted that the CFIA gives as much as two weeks notice. Some producers have used this time to clean up and get their hen-houses in order. [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/04/17/media-update-for-april-17-2011/
Canadian food safety criticized by Canadian Medical Association Journal: I picked up another food safety story from one of my favourite blogs, barfblog. Doug Powell, who is a Canadian at Kansas State University, has a posting on the state of food inspection in Canada. This when we’re in the midst of another food contamination outbreak [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/04/14/media-update-for-april-14-2011/