Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canada Grocery Code, developed to promote transparency and fairness in the sector, took full effect on New Year’s Day.
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Grocery code of conduct takes full effect
Tyson Foods settles U.S. beef price-fixing lawsuit for $82.5 million
Reading Time: < 1 minute Tyson Foods has agreed to pay $82.5 million (C$113.3 million) to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit brought by grocers and other businesses that accused the meat and poultry giant of conspiring to inflate U.S. beef prices by restricting supply.
Consumers not confused by plant protein ‘burgers’ or ‘milk’, research suggests
Reading Time: 3 minutes Farmers in Europe have long expressed concerns that plant-based substitutes could threaten traditional farming practices. However, research suggests that consumers aren’t confused by the terminology.
Italy crafts lab-grown snacks with fruit residues, plant cells and a 3D printer
Reading Time: 2 minutes Scientists in Italy are developing sweet snacks with lab-grown plant cells and fruit residues, producing a material that a 3D printer can then process into ‘pastries’ with high nutritional content.
Growing pains: An Ontario city’s urban agriculture efforts show good policy requires real capacity
Reading Time: 4 minutes London, Ont., adopted Canada’s first stand-alone Urban Agriculture Strategy in 2017. Yet, almost eight years later, many of the strategy’s goals remain unrealized.
Ultra-processed foods are danger to global public health, experts warn
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ultra-processed foods are a major public health threat that must be urgently addressed, according to a new series of papers authored by 43 global experts in the Lancet medical journal.
Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls
Reading Time: 3 minutes Packaged food makers and fast-food restaurants may be forced to overhaul more of their products next year as newly approved, appetite-suppressing GLP-1 pills become available in January, analysts say.
US EPA meets with Make America Healthy Again leaders about pesticides, chemicals
Reading Time: 3 minutes Top officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held at least six meetings this month with members of the Make America Healthy Again movement as agency head Lee Zeldin pledges to more closely align with the movement’s agenda, according to four people who attended the meetings.
Canada October retail sales down 0.2 per cent; seen up 1.2 per cent in November
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian retail sales fell by 0.2 per cent in October from September to $69.44 billion, on lower sales at food and beverage retailers, Statistics Canada said on Friday.
Food waste costs Canadian farmers, agri-food companies in hidden ways
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reducing food waste could mean savings for farmers and agri-food businesses — but it may demand more accountability said two experts at the at the Humane Canada One Health One Welfare Conference in Ottawa.