Health Canada has put up a new searchable database of food and children’s product recalls for Canadian consumers.
The site, at www.healthycanadians.gc.ca, includes separate listings of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s food alerts and recalls, Health Canada’s children’s toy and product recalls and a search function to check for specific products.
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The food recall listing, for example, comes up with the CFIA’s most recent alerts, including allergy alerts for undeclared milk in Charlemagne Chocolatiers Bio-Organic chocolates and in Vintage Plantations soy milk chocolate bars, and a salmonella alert for Baker’s white chocolate baking squares.
The seven children’s product recalls announced so far in October included four related to high levels of lead, and two choking hazards.
“When Canadians hear rumours about problems with food or product safety, they want the real facts fast, and don’t want to search different Web sites to get the information,” said Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, who attended the site launch Wednesday in Ottawa along with Health Minister Tony Clement and Christian Paradis, the secretary of state for agriculture.
The new site combines, for the first time, databases from different government departments so parents can more easily search for information they need, Clement said in a release.
Site users can search for food or product recalls by keyword, date, product or company name or browse through recalls dating back to 1995, Health Canada said. Photos of recalled children’s products are also included with recall notices.
Consumers and parents can also subscribe to the CFIA and Health Canada e-mail news services for food or product recalls.
