Can you imagine what would happen to us if we were sending all this diseased food to the "states" ....I am glad somebody at this end are doing there job in catching this

It only gets "Caught" after people get sick. Once again our government"s have cut back on the inspectors and only "high risk" foods are inspected. Recalls happen after people get sick not before. Yet another positive effect of the neo-conservative drive to reduce government and allow industry self regulation. In the future imported foods will only get worse until NAFTA forces Canada to allow irradiated foods to be sold here. The illness bred of infection will be replaced with cancers as a result of the radiation. Cheers fellow sheep.

Realist would be one of the few that understand the purpose of freetrade as it is set up now.

Multinational corportations are making our laws and regulations that govern them through trade agreements that supercede our democratic law making abilities to to provide consumer, environmental, and labour safety all in the name of 'free' trade. Agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, IMF, and TILMA.

John (TILMA hero) Rustad is the lead advocate of these types of agreements in BC.

How about we support local agriculture?
(I mean across the nation) If we subsidized our farmers like the yanks do, we could be more competitive, price wise. I would much rather eat a carrot grown locally, than some processed product grown in a country that does not have any sort of environmental pollution laws. How do you know what is in or on those processed carrots anyway? Let's overwhelm our own local farmers market, create a demand that they cannot currently fill, and show that there are lots of people who will buy local produce. The free trade agreement is b.s. I agree with Chader. the whole thing is set up to benefit large corporations, who will eventually control us even more than they do already. They will mass produce (no pun int.) our food, well, they already do, don't they? The t.v. tells us what to buy, and it is all processed, treated, etc. manufactured under controlled conditions. BUY LOCAL. Pay a little more, get better food, and support a fellow CANADIAN.
metalman.

For those of you who don’t know the real story. The carrots that are being recalled come from a supplier in California. Los Angeles Salad Company, the article says that the product is labeled “product of Mexico” but in fact the product is coming from Guatemala. Let that be a clarification for the Canadian government, if you’re going to point the finger at someone you need to get all of the information correct. What really surprises me is that the company involved is from the U.S. yet the FDA has done nothing as to posting it on their website so that more people are aware of what’s going on. If it’s in Canada you know it’s in the U.S. I agree that we should try to push our U.S. growers more into producing American crops, but let’s face it the government has not given the growers support as to funding, labor and assurance that the U.S. will buy the product grown in the United States. Let’s also take into consideration that the current California Growers have been in the industry forever and they have automated facilities in place that peel the carrots by machine not by hand. The contamination of the carrots are carrots that are being peeled by hand in Guatemala, all it takes is one sick person to get everybody else sick. That disease stays alive with humidity and heat, and when you ship Carrots that are warm and packaged you have the ideal incubation for the disease. Just a bit of information from the heart of the produce industry!
JMT

Hey jmt it looks like you know more details about this recall than what the press writes :)

My wife, who's pregnant, consumed baby carrots from a Costco tray that was packaged on Aug.19. Do you think we should worry?

Thanks

Botmi
I’m really not in any position to tell you what to do and what not to do. But I will tell you that if your wife has consumed the same product that is being recalled and the symptoms are there, then I would go. If she feels fine and there are no symptoms of vomiting and bloody stools then she is probably in the clear. If you fell that you want to seek medical advice just to be on the safe side well I wouldn’t blame you. After all it is you’re off spring right? I have been to Guatemala and its no different from any third world country, the people that run the operations down there have to be held accountable for there actions. There employees are just doing what they are told to do, whether it’s wrong or right they just want to feed there family. Kind of what happens in our country, it’s no different than the processors here; they need to be set up with GMP programs, GAP programs and most importantly a HACCP program. Many companies in the states seek cheaper product meaning same quality product but cheaper ways of producing it. That does not mean going to a third world country and not setting up the proper structure before you process just so that you can capitalize on the cheaper cost! I have nothing against doing that, it’s a way of business. But come on people lets do it the right way!
Jmt

Thanks for your quick answer Jmt.

My wife is not sick (yet), but it is just the thought...

The announcement says that those carrots were marked as "Sell By dates up to and including 8 /13 /07". Does that mean that theoretically all carrots should be out the door or thrown away by Aug. 13? ...because if that is the case there will be lower changes (I think) to have those carrots in a tray purchased 6 days later.

...but you never know.

I totally agree with you on your views. The bottom line is you get what you pay for. Every company should be held responsible for their desire of making larger profits and not ensuring that other risks (healthy in this case) are eliminated. Obviously it cost money to eliminate a risk and they are after cheaper operations costs…

Yes you are right, the sell by dates were up until the 13th of august which means that all of that product should be out of the store. I don’t think you will have a problem, I just heard it through the grape vine that the same company is shorting orders for their U.S. customers on the Baby Carrots. Makes you wonder why???