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A short document (2 pages) outlining proper precautions for maintaining the quality and safety of gleaned foods.  Includes tips for safe handling and receiving and storing gleaned produce.

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Community_Garden_Gleaning_Initiatives1.pdf

An Expert Panel Report on the Future of Food Biotechnology
prepared by The Royal Society of Canada at the request of Health Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Environment Canada, January 2001. Table of Contents and Executive Summary only (20 pages).
 

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Elements_of_Precaution.pdf

Provincial Health Officer's Annual Report for 2005 (174 pages). Note of interest: The PHO recommends mandatory labeling of GE foods. Also comments on intensive livestock operations, aquaculture, and industrial contaminants in food.
 

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PHOannual2005.pdf

Written by Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network.
Excerpted from "Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering", edited by Brian Tokar (London: Zed Books, 2001). 19 pages.
 

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BGH_Chapter_Redesigning_Life.pdf

Table showing GE crops and processed food ingredients that are legally produced in Canada, and/or imported. Current as of July 2008, (2 pages). Produced by the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN).
 

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GE_Crops_and_Foods_Table_July_2008.pdf

Briefing paper (6 pages), 2008.
International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development. This is one of six IAASTD reports that were agreed to at an Intergovernmental Plenary Session in Johannesburg, South Africa in April, 2008.
 

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IAASTD_FoodSafe.pdf

Information, ideas, and strategies for activists opposed to factory farming. A project of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) in New York.
 

HUGE catalogue of food safety resources made available by the Pennsylvania State Dept of Food Science.