Paraformaldehyde found in Quebec
Went to my Farmer's Market last Saturday and a customer asked if I used paraformaldehyde in my trees, to which I replied no as it`s illegal to. She said they were in Quebec, so I did some Google searches.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/20...rup-production
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle17261481/
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The spokesman for federation has a good point though. Other areas are'nt going to find what they're not looking for. Quebec should be commended for their commitment to quality.
Sean
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releaser.
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Ah look at it this way, they say the penalty is dropping the grade to commercial yet still buying it. If they buy it it makes it into the federations supply, therefore the federation basically admits that there syrup supply now has paraformaldahyde in it......wow, I just got a great new selling technique that proves my syrup is much safer than Canada's
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Really? 3 out of 10,000+ producers in Quebec and you lump all Canadian maple producers together. Pretty sad...Originally Posted by jmayerl
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I wonder how many producers in the states and other provinces are using paraformaldehyde where nobody is looking for it?
Russ
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The article says 15. And yes I lumped all federation SYRUP together, not producers as you suggested. The federations stand on it is stated very simply that they buy the syrup and penalize the producer with a "fine"
That is what I said.
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jmayerl,
Not exactly. You said your syrup was better than Canadian syrup because of what's gone on in the Federation. Ontario and New Brunswick are each about equivalent to New York in total syrup produced per year but are not at all involved with the Quebec Federation so you can't lump us with Quebec. We go to great lengths to differentiate our locally produced syrup in Ontario as a large percentage of the syrup sold here comes from Quebec too - Ontario is a net importer of syrup as demand exceeds supply.
I don't agree that the Federation should allow contaminated syrup to enter the food chain - it should be dumped. I know Ontario forces some syrup to be dumped each year because of higher than permissible lead levels because our Ministry of Agriculture and Food is very pro-active at monitoring food safety. They would never allow it to be sold as sub-standard syrup so it can be diluted and re-processed.
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The thing that jumped out at me, and many have already pointed out is that they still bought the syrup???????????????????????????????????
So we are commending them on "quality control" in QC??????????????????????? Sure they caught the breach by the producer. But...
To me they are failing the maple industry and consumer by buying this syrup.
They blend it all anyway to control taste right? It would make perfect sense that this good tasting Commercial Syrup will be blended with other good syrup and find it's way into a crap brown colored QC container and on a shelf in the US?????
Why wouldn't they dump that producers syrup and make an example out of them so others will get the memo.
I mean they are willing to (in my opinion) steal another producers entire crop because they try to enter the free market and not sell to the Fed. Now the Fed is standing by a producer that is also breaking the law by buying their poison syrup.
With all the terrible press the Fed is getting, spoofs on TV and even a movie coming I think, I wonder how long for this world the Fed is?
Ben
Well said Clinkis, Fighting amongst ourselves isn't going to solve anything
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I think you dont understand my explanation. The Qc Fed. want to refuse the syrup, but they cannot rely the tap contamination found to the syrup produced, so as per Canadian laws (federal government, The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) ) the syrup is not found contaminated, and they are forced to accept it.
The penalty of dropping grade to commercial is the more they can apply in this cases. If they had found any or enough trace of Paraformaldéhide in the syrup, they could apply the Federal law and dump it, and they re will be happy to do it.
Some producers on our forum suggest to give the Federation the capacity to remove quotas to these cheaters, we dont need them...
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