Defining what local food is in a country as large and diverse as Canada is going to be challenge for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, say some P.E.I. chefs. The agency has long had a rule which ...

Dear Minister Thompson (minister of Agriculture and Land), Mr. Ron Maynard (president of the P.E.I. Federation of Agriculture) and P.E.I. Burger Love (owned by Fresh Media, Melody and Robbie Dover): I ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has greatly expanded its definition of local food. The CFIA, which is responsible for food labelling in Canada, has for decades defined local food as food that is ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced an initiative to modernize Canada’s food labelling approach by changing our definition of “local” food Ottawa – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) ...

The term 'local' is important to consumers when making grocery purchases, but shoppers' definition of a local product is on a sliding scale (depending on the category) ranging from being produced ...

“Local” is a word that is broadly used to describe something particular about a place that makes it different from somewhere else. Across the globe, the “local-ness” of our cities is what makes them ...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) recently established a temporary definition of local food for labelling purposes, changing the previous definition of 50 km from point of purchase to ...

Food Secure Canada weighs in on how local foods should be defined and what the new parameters mean for local friendly restaurants. In March of this year, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne re-introduced ...