Posted AT 4:46 AM EST on 22/09/08
Lax standards to blame for rise in food recalls, experts say
There has been a stunning increase in the number of products pulled from the country's grocery stores and fast-food restaurants due to contamination by a sometimes deadly bacterium, and experts are proclaiming this as proof of a long-simmering crisis in the safety of Canada's food supply.
More than 440 food products have been recalled so far this year because of exposure to Listeria monocytogenes, including 323 related to a single production line at a Toronto meat processing plant.
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