Insights and Stories on Testing

Food exporters to China asked to declare produce coronavirus-free

Jun. 19, 2020 at 10:20 am CDT

Beijing | Reuters — China’s customs authority has asked food exporters to the country to sign a declaration their produce is not contaminated by the novel coronavirus, three people who received a letter said on Friday. The declaration, seen by Reuters, may be an effort by China to reduce the […]

Third major Alberta beef plant confirms COVID-19 cases

Apr. 16, 2020 at 5:20 pm CDT

By Alexis Kienlen

Inspections group SGS to slim workforce

Jul. 18, 2019 at 5:06 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

U.S. to begin testing sick and dead pigs for African swine fever

May. 16, 2019 at 4:17 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Pigs could soon move off Alberta’s PED-infected farm

Feb. 7, 2019 at 8:15 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Bovine TB probe expands to Saskatchewan

Dec. 21, 2018 at 9:06 pm CST

Updated, Dec. 24 — Some cattle in Saskatchewan are now under federally imposed movement controls as testing for bovine tuberculosis expands to 14 domestic herds in three provinces. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Friday the tracing of a single case of bovine TB in a beef cow from a […]

By GFM Staff

Six more cattle herds to be tested in TB probe

Dec. 17, 2018 at 8:36 pm CST

Updated, Dec. 20 — Cattle from four more herds in British Columbia and two in Alberta are now being tested for bovine tuberculosis as officials probe the country’s latest domestic case of the disease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday reported the six herds are now under “movement controls” […]

By GFM Staff

Saskatchewan farm truckers exempt on new training rule

Dec. 6, 2018 at 6:10 am CST

Saskatchewan semi truck drivers driving only for farming operations will get a pass on the province’s planned new mandatory minimum trucker training requirements. The province announced Monday it will require a minimum of 121.5 hours of training before a driver can obtain a Class 1 commercial driver’s licence, starting March […]

By Dave Bedard

Wheat shipment halt seen as temporary

Jun. 23, 2018 at 2:28 am CDT

Wheat sales are expected to soon resume to Japan and South Korea. Both nations suspended Canadian wheat imports following the June 15 announcement that Canada had discovered several genetically modified (GM) wheat plants in southern Alberta. But both are expected to come back to the market shortly, while exports to […]

By Allan Dawson

Bovine TB probe’s on-farm testing work complete

Dec. 19, 2017 at 8:22 pm CST

On-farm testing work has wrapped on all the cattle herds that supplied animals in the past five years to an Alberta herd that turned up six cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in the fall of 2016. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported Tuesday it has completed on-farm testing of […]

By Staff

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