Canadian Food Inspections Agency: XL Foods Plant

Safety Challenges Dept: In part thanks to a $1.6 million grant from the Alberta government, the rate of cow slaughter at the XL Foods plant is 4,500 cattle a day -- a rate that is more profitable for the company, but experts say raises new safety challenges, according to CTV. The Canadian Food Inspections Agency started detailed examinations of the sanitary conditions and equipment at the XL Foods plant in Brooks this morning, after the company claimed that it had dealt with safety issues and the company at the heart of the largest beef recall in Canadian history has shuttered smaller meat packing plants across the country while receiving government money to boost the operations of one massive slaughterhouse. You can t inspect safety into food. You have to have a culture that values safety. What we ve seen at XL Foods is that safety is at the bottom of the list, said Doug Powell, a Canadian-born food microbiologist from Kansas State University. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.