Canada's reputation as a safe pork supplier could make it a prime target for food fraud

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Canada's reputation as a safe pork supplier could make it a prime target for food fraud

Trade Minister Jim Carr says government working 'aggressively' to lift China's meat import ban

Kathleen Harris · CBC News 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-pork-china-food-fraud-1.5192852

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Canada's reputation as a safe and reliable supplier of pork products during a devastating outbreak of swine fever could explain why a shipment to China fraudulently claimed it was cleared by Canadian inspectors.

The RCMP's international investigations unit has launched a probe into a batch of pork products labelled with a falsified Canadian Food Inspection Agency export certificate. China has since suspended all meat imports from Canada.

International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr said today he wouldn't speculate on the possible origin of the meat, but suggested that whoever falsified the documentation for it was exploiting Canada's status as a safe supplier.

"We know that we are sending abroad the finest pork in the world. We know that the Canada brand is an elite brand. So I guess it might be in somebody's interest to use that branding and that reputation," he said in an interview with CBC News Network's Power & Politics.

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They want to get samples of the pork and do dna and other testing on it. Supposedly they can tell what a pig ate so they could find out where it is from. At best: fraud. At worst: sabotage

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