Golden Pinnacle Food Ltd. Fined for Contravening the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drugs Act

Moncton, New Brunswick, December 21, 2011: On October 11th, 2011, Golden Pinnacle Food Ltd. of Toronto, Ontario pleaded guilty in Ontario Court of Justice to two counts of contravening the Meat Inspection Act and to two counts of contravening the Food and Drug Act and was fined $250 in each count for a total of $1000.

In December 2009 and April 2010, Golden Pinnacle Food Ltd. was involved in the interprovincial movement of meat from Ontario to Nova Scotia which did not comply with subsection 8(b) of the Meat Inspection Act and subsection 6(1)(b) of the Food and Drugs Act.

The Meat Inspection Act states:

8. No person shall send or convey a meat product from one province to another unless (b) it complies with prescribed standards and is packaged and labelled in the manner prescribed.

The Food and Drugs Act states:

6. (1) Where a standard for a food has been prescribed, no person shall
(b) send, convey or receive for conveyance from one province to another, or

any article that is intended for sale and that is likely to be mistaken for that food unless the article complies with the prescribed standard.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is responsible for enforcing a variety of federal statutes, including the Meat Inspection Act and its regulations. This Act governs the import, export and interprovincial trade of meat products.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is responsible for the enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act as it relates to food, as that term is defined in section 2 of that Act, and the administration of the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act as they relate to food, as defined in section 2 of that Act, except those provisions that relate to public health, safety or nutrition.

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