Frightening Food

While parents are trying to avoid placing Chinese-made toys such as Aqua Dots, assembled with a toxic glue, and Thomas the Tank Engines that are painted with lead under the Christmas tree, there is a potentially greater challenge: ensuring the safety of imported foods their child …

Food Costs Take A Big Bite Of The Income Pie For Low-income British Columbians, Canada

Imagine spending 42% of your income after taxes on food. That's how much a family of four receiving income assistance in BC would need to spend to purchase enough healthy food.

Food Safety: Should We be Tougher on Harmful Produce from China?

In the span of just a few years, China has become one of the world's biggest exporters of food.

Fresh food rainbow

Canada's iconic food guide has seen substantial changes since its release during World War II, when eggs were a separate food group, a daily serving of potato was the norm, and fish oil was recommended to boost vitamin D intake.

Salmonella Scare at Hershey Plant Prompts Recall

Hershey Canada, in co-operation with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a recall over the weekend of twenty-five choclate products manufactured at the company's Smith Falls, Ontario plant due to fears that they had become contaminated with salmonella.