CFIA: International Meat

Meat Processing Dept: Richard Arsenault, CFIA director of meat programs, says tests at the XL Food plant in Brooks are underway, according to CBC. Roughly 800 workers are to return to the plant on Tuesday to finish processing the remaining carcasses at the facility. The CFIA says the meat processing plant in Brooks, Alta., will open when it can ensure the plant will produce food that is safe for Canadians to eat and the Alberta meat plant at the centre of an international meat recall because of an E. coli outbreak could reopen as soon as the end of this week, says a Canadian Food Inspection Agency official. "They'll finish cutting up and we'll do our assessment and that shouldn't be something that takes a terribly long amount of time, so either the end of this week or the beginning of next week sometime. It depends how the plant performs," he told News on Monday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.