Canadian here, serious foodie.,..so..,in one of my many many random food related discusions/visits/inquiry/investigations...I got talking with the owner of a local maker of tofu, and how they grew the business from a kitchen table operation in the days of wtf is tofu, to now where they have a small regional presence, and how they are regulated, hah! ha!, by the Canadian Food inspection agency...no not them....,department of agriculture....no not them....brace yourself....they are regulated by...the department of fisheries.,...not kidding...because , apparently, as it turns out, ha!, one of the things that can infect tofu, is also found in fish, so under this logic, thats who regulates tofu.
so as to "war" against a Canadian ban on Vegimite,
it might just be much,much simpler, though ha!, hard to swallow, to have the stuff sold as a "nutritional supliment" or just vitamins, with "non medical ingredients" than engage in a frontal assult on one of our entrenched beuorocracys.
and as a completely unrelated subject of interest to no one whatsoever, is the sale of raw milk in Canada as pet food, perfectly clean, unpasturised, fresh, pet food, which even more trivialy is completely unregulated in Canada, and of course is never consumed by humans
"…to have the stuff sold as a "nutritional supliment" or just vitamins, with "non medical ingredients""
That makes sense, the hapless café owner ought try that approach.
Vitamin B9/folate/folic acid ought not be controversial as it's an essential nutrient. It's added to bread and some other foodstuffs in many countries to ensure pregnant mothers get enough, as folate deficiency causes birth defects.
no idea what the specific microbe to be found in fish and tufu, is called....though if you are the adventurous type, then I suggest filling a "foipop" freadom of information something some thing something with the Canadian feds.
As to "essential nutients" added to Canadian food, that is done by legaly requiring certain large producers to add vitamins in specific amounts to specific foods...,.the real nitty gritty of how that is handled and by who....will likely require another foipop
Another aside on imported food in Canada, is asian food, sold in ma and pa ethnic grocerie stores, that would arrive strait from the home country, with zero english on it and non of the ingredients listed, which seemed to be fine with everyone except the government when they noticed this after
many decades, then began a whole thing with stick on lists of ingredients, but this then degenerated into a beurocratic battle as to which "common" names should be used for the ingriedients, resulting in total confusion from everyone, as to what was in the food, this was resolved by the asian countrys going with full latin scientific names on the labels,which has proven impossible to fault them on, and so we are now again blissfully ignorant of whatever it is in our soup mix.
Australian: "That amounts to a declaration of war."
Canadian here, serious foodie.,..so..,in one of my many many random food related discusions/visits/inquiry/investigations...I got talking with the owner of a local maker of tofu, and how they grew the business from a kitchen table operation in the days of wtf is tofu, to now where they have a small regional presence, and how they are regulated, hah! ha!, by the Canadian Food inspection agency...no not them....,department of agriculture....no not them....brace yourself....they are regulated by...the department of fisheries.,...not kidding...because , apparently, as it turns out, ha!, one of the things that can infect tofu, is also found in fish, so under this logic, thats who regulates tofu. so as to "war" against a Canadian ban on Vegimite, it might just be much,much simpler, though ha!, hard to swallow, to have the stuff sold as a "nutritional supliment" or just vitamins, with "non medical ingredients" than engage in a frontal assult on one of our entrenched beuorocracys. and as a completely unrelated subject of interest to no one whatsoever, is the sale of raw milk in Canada as pet food, perfectly clean, unpasturised, fresh, pet food, which even more trivialy is completely unregulated in Canada, and of course is never consumed by humans
"…the department of fisheries…"
What on earth is it?
"…to have the stuff sold as a "nutritional supliment" or just vitamins, with "non medical ingredients""
That makes sense, the hapless café owner ought try that approach.
Vitamin B9/folate/folic acid ought not be controversial as it's an essential nutrient. It's added to bread and some other foodstuffs in many countries to ensure pregnant mothers get enough, as folate deficiency causes birth defects.
no idea what the specific microbe to be found in fish and tufu, is called....though if you are the adventurous type, then I suggest filling a "foipop" freadom of information something some thing something with the Canadian feds. As to "essential nutients" added to Canadian food, that is done by legaly requiring certain large producers to add vitamins in specific amounts to specific foods...,.the real nitty gritty of how that is handled and by who....will likely require another foipop Another aside on imported food in Canada, is asian food, sold in ma and pa ethnic grocerie stores, that would arrive strait from the home country, with zero english on it and non of the ingredients listed, which seemed to be fine with everyone except the government when they noticed this after many decades, then began a whole thing with stick on lists of ingredients, but this then degenerated into a beurocratic battle as to which "common" names should be used for the ingriedients, resulting in total confusion from everyone, as to what was in the food, this was resolved by the asian countrys going with full latin scientific names on the labels,which has proven impossible to fault them on, and so we are now again blissfully ignorant of whatever it is in our soup mix.
Marmite tastes better anyway.