Backed by private investors, a company called Cheese New Brunswick have announced that they will be opening a new cheese plant near Sussex, New Brunswick. The facility will create a new hard cheese similar to the popular Reggiano-Parmiagiano cheese from Italy.
Due to cheese labelling restrictions, the cheese cannot be called Reggiano-Parmiagiano unless it comes from [...]
Nadeau Poultry Farm a large chicken processor located in northern New Brunswick, has announced a layoff of 175 workers which is approximately half of its staff. The managers of the plant state that the staff reduction is caused by a lack of a supply of chickens to process after its prime chicken supplier and soon [...]
Part of the problem with the current food supply chain is the disconnect between producer and consumer. Information about where food is grown or manufactured as well additional information about growing techniques or specific manufacturing process are not available to consumers. Even after extensive research, it is often difficult to know where our food comes [...]
Have you ever noticed that certain food items that you buy don’t seem to last as long as before? This could be due to the practice known as short sizing.
What is short sizing?
The practice of short sizing consists of slightly reducing package sizes while keeping the prices near the same level. This has the [...]
In 2007, the Canadian government announced new regulatory changes with respect to cheese sold in Canada that may affect the quality, content and perhaps the price of cheese in your supermarket.
Cheese labelling changes
The changes are fairly minor but the updated law will require imposes compositional standards for cheeses. In other words there will now be [...]
The battle is brewing over chicken processing in New Brunswick.
The Players
In one corner is the long established Nadeau Maple Lodge (owned by Ontario based parent company Maple Lodge Farms) who currently operates New Brunswick’s only chicken processing facility in the northern New Brunswick community of St. Francois de Madawaska.
In the other corner is Groupe Westco [...]