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Closing down the Destination Inspection Service is a step backward
Industry warns eliminating the Destination Inspection Service risks higher food prices, trade setbacks, and increased food waste while CFIA reassesses financial claims amid lobbying.
- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is reviewing financial assumptions for the Destination Inspection Service following lobbying from the Canadian Produce Marketing Association and other industry groups.
- Ron Lemaire, head of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association, described the service as a "key backstop" that maintains market stability through neutral, federally recognized inspections trusted by buyers and sellers.
- Before the service existed, suppliers applied 10 to 15 per cent risk premiums on Canadian produce, Lemaire noted, because no government inspection system validated product condition.
- Without federal oversight, Canada risks losing "preferred PACA Access," forcing growers to post bonds double the load value during disputes, a burden other trading nations avoid.
- Contrary to the $900,000 cost estimate, Lemaire characterizes the service as cost-recovery, warning that eliminating it would fragment inspection outcomes and increase food waste.
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Closing down the Destination Inspection Service is a step backward
Domestic and foreign impacts will immediately follow any shutting down of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s Destination Inspection Service, says the head of the Canadian Produce Marketing Association.
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