The Vision: To always provide consumers safe, great tasting food produced in a safe environment Create a High Performing Food Safety Organization Engage every employee in food safety efforts Establish a food safety organizational structure that builds expertise, knowledge sharing and a consistent approach across the company Establish a strong food safety culture built on…

Maple Leaf is committed to protecting consumer and public health by implementing the highest levels of food safety. We are also committed to communicating with our customers in a direct and candid manner. As such, we are excited to announce the launch of an external company blog on food safety. We want to know what…

Maple Leaf is committed to using proven global best practices in food safety to keep food as safe as possible. Since the events of last August Maple Leaf has made substantial changes to significantly reduce Listeria findings in our plants. While Listeria can never be completely eliminated from the environment, one of the ways we…

Listeria can live almost anywhere and is commonly found in soil, water and unprocessed foods such as dairy, meat, poultry and processed foods such as deli meats, hot dogs, cheese and ice cream. Listeria can also be spread with an infected product or surface, such as hands or kitchen counters during food preparation. Healthy children…

By Randy Huffman Chief Food Safety Officer Maple Leaf Foods Several Food Safety events have been making the news lately, but I would like to draw your attention to the devastating outbreak currently underway in Europe caused by E. coli O1O4:H4. At time of this writing over 4200 cases of illness and over 50 deaths…