Frigo Royal was named as the company that sent contaminated Canadian pork to China earlier this month. At the time, the Canadian Pork Council said the meat came from Frigo Royal. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency later discovered the export certificate was phony, leading to a blanket ban on all Canadian meat by China and questions about the pork’s origin. Marie-Claude Bibeau, Canadian agriculture and agri-food minister, wouldn’t speculate on where the pork came from but said that given a fake certificate was involved, it’s possible it wasn’t from Frigo Royal. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWOn the food agency’s website, Frigo Royal is listed as a licensed facility able to export meat and process poultry and red meat.

Source: thestar June 28, 2019 22:41 UTC