The US Food and Drug Administration last month stopped a canola meal shipment from a CanAmera Foods plant in Canada from entering the US because of fears it may have been contaminated with animal muscle tissue.
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The FDA halted the shipment from the canola crushing plant in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, from crossing the border due to “suspected contamination,” Deb Seidel, a spokeswoman for Bunge North America, told Reuters. Bunge owns CanAmera Foods.
The FDA therefore placed the plant on “import alert”, meaning that every shipment from the Nipawin CanAmera plant has to be tested.
“We are testing every sample with every (rail) car coming into the US as required,” Seidel was quoted by Reuters as saying. “If the FDA finds test results satisfactory, then the car is allowed to come into the United States.”
The plant crushes canola for vegetable oil and canola meal, which is used in livestock feed.
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By GlobalData“We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that these vegetable products are then not contaminated by animal tissue,” Seidel said, adding that Bunge had asked the FDA to find out what type of animal the tissue came from.
