Food Safety First!
Published by Patrick October 8th, 2008 in Federal Election 2008 Tags: CFIA, Federal Election 2008, federal-government.
Dear PSAC member:
Food safety has been on the minds of a lot of people these days. And with all of the food recalls, you may have been thinking about it too.
It’s a sad day when parents worry that the school lunches they are packing for their children might make them sick. Or that a parent in a nursing home might be served food that could prove fatal.
This shouldn’t be happening in Canada. That’s why we’ve set up a special website – www.foodsafetyfirst.ca. I urge you to check it out and to use it to send a message to the candidates running for election in your riding about food safety.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency food inspectors – PSAC members – are doing the best job they can but there just aren’t enough of them. And, now the Harper government wants them to concentrate on paper work, rather than spending the time they need to on the plant floor to make sure our food is safe.
As we’ve seen, leaving inspection in the hands of food production companies is a risky business.
Please visit www.foodsafetyfirst.ca. Its online action centre makes it fast and easy to send a message to the candidates in your riding. You can ask what your candidates are prepared to do about food safety before you vote.
If we don’t make sure the MPs in our next Parliament take food safety seriously, our friends and families may be at risk.
When visiting www.foodsafetyfirst.ca please send your message from a home e-mail address. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Kay Sinclair, Regional Executive Vice-President, BC