Food safety and food waste have been hot topics recently in various media sources. In the following articles from The Globe and Mail, Professor Sylvain Charlebois discusses these two issues.

Following the events surrounding XL Foods, Charlebois comments on the possible benefits of changing oversight responsibilities of Canada’s food-safety system. Read "Feds discussed bailing out XL Foods to ease fallout from beef recall" [1]

In this second article, Charlebois writes about the prevalence of food waste and the challenges presented by best before dates. Read "How to extend food’s shelf life" [2]