Even before an internal audit found two years ago that it was not doing a good job of monitoring what was coming into this country, it was stated by the agency responsible for food safety in Canada that surveillance of imported food was improved.

Steps to enhance imported food program by Cameron Prince, vice-president of operations at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s organization were taken.

Prince added that to look for contraband items in the marketplace dedicated teams of food inspectors have been established.

He added that to conduct ‘border blitzes’ from their usual jobs at Canadian processing plants others have been regularly redirected.

It means that when a tip off was received that contamination might be there in food coming in from some other country, every ship and truck carrying the suspected food is inspected.

For the agency to know what food has arrived in Canada and where it has gone, there’s a better tracking system in place.

Since 2005 there have been 538 new front-line inspectors hired but it could not be stated by Prince that how many of them have been dedicated to watching the imports.