The mayor of Brooks in southern Alberta says the community is in crisis mode as it prepares for the human cost of troubles at the XL Foods beef plant. Workers at the plant, which is at the centre of a beef recall and E. coli scare, have been laid off again as food safety officials … Continue reading
The meat processing company at the centre of an E. coli outbreak is recalling 800 workers it laid off only a day earlier, breaking an impasse that kept federal inspectors from completing their review of the operation. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) evaluation of XL Foods ground to a halt this weekend when the … Continue reading