Traduction de «altération des aliments » (Français → Anglais) :

‘official detention’ means the procedure by which the competent authority ensures that feed or food is not moved or tampered with pending a decision on its destination; it includes storage by feed and food business operators in accordance with instructions from the competent authority.

‘official detention’ means the procedure by which the competent authority ensures that feed or food is not moved or tampered with pending a decision on its destination; it includes storage by feed and food business operators in accordance with instructions from the competent authority.

Amendments to the Food and Drugs Act relating to food that were contemplated at that time included “clearly describing food not permitted for importation into or sale in Canada,” establishing registration and licences relating to food importing, and prohibiting tampering with or threatening to tamper with food, food packaging or food labels (16)

Clause 4 also adds a new “Prohibitions” heading, grouping together prohibitions set out in the existing Food and Drugs Act under that heading as well as adding the following prohibited activities: knowingly providing the Minister with false or misleading information in relation to a matter under the bill (new section 3), tampering with a food, therapeutic product or cosmetic (including tampering with its label or package) to either render it injurious to human health (new subsection 3.1(1)(a)) or to cause a reasonable apprehension that it is injurious to human health (new paragraph 3.1(1)(b)), selling or importing an aforementioned produ ...[+++]ct that was tampered with to render it injurious to human health (new subsection 3.1(2)), or threatening to tamper with such a product (new subsection 3.1 (3)). Clause 4 also prohibits communicating or causing to be communicated information known to be false or “reckless as to its truth” for the purpose of causing a reasonable apprehension that a product has been rendered injurious to human health (new section 3.2).

I see the time, and I get the feeling that I do not have much left, but I want to say that some of the objectives in this bill need to be emphasized, such as avoiding problems by instituting broader targets for potentially unsafe food imports, increasing the government's power to prevent problems by requiring the industry to implement monitoring for unsafe foods, and expressly forbidding the modification of foods.

Some of the changes proposed by Bill C-51 that appear in Bill S-11 in almost identical form include provisions relating to food tampering, the licensing of imported food and food to be transported interprovincially, the expansion of inspectors’ powers, the power to seek an injunction, powers related to forfeiture, and offences and penalties.