The federal agency says the facility was not properly conducting environmental swabbing and finished product testing prior to a national recall of several Silk and Great Value products
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says an Ontario facility producing plant-based milks was not adhering to Health Canada ’s policies on listeria prevention prior to an outbreak that led to three deaths.
“That obviously was unacceptable,” Health Minister Mark Holland said Tuesday while providing an update on the outbreak, which infected at least 20 people in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Alberta. A three-year survey completed by the CFIA in 2022 found plant-based milk alternatives to be “generally safe,” with no listeria found in the samples taken.However, it did visit the plant in response to consumer complaints about allergens, an “off-taste,” and mould in 2018 and 2019, and then again in 2023 and 2024.
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