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1. Episode · Aug 12, 2026

   Ethyl Carbamate: Enforced for Forty Years, Law Since July (opens the original)

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   Canadian importers of rhum agricole, the French AOC- and IG-bearing cane-juice rums of Martinique and Guadeloupe, have told me more than once that bringing it into Ontario is close to a coin flip: roughly half the time, a shipment fails the LCBO's laboratory and never reaches a shelf. That is their estimate, but it’s enough to dissuade importers from doing much rhum agricole business in Ontario. The molecule at fault is ethyl carbamate, a process contaminant that can form during fermentation, di

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2. Episode · Jul 27, 2026

   One in Three Olive Oil Samples: CFIA's 2024-25 Food Fraud Report and your supply chain (opens the original)

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   Of the olive oil the Canadian Food Inspection Agency tested for authenticity in 2024-25, 67 percent matched what its label claimed. Close to one in three samples did not. It is the lowest satisfactory rate of any commodity in the report's authenticity testing, and every one of the 85 olive oil samples was taken at import. CFIA aims this sampling at higher-risk products and businesses and says the results are not representative of the Canadian marketplace. Even so, if you import, bottle or brand

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