Canada orders Briton to stop selling Illegal additives

-DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL 

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The British food shop in Canada has been ordered to stop selling Marmite, Ovaltine and Irn-Bru because they contain illegal additives.

Irn-Bru contains the food colouring Ponceau 4R. It is not permitted in foods for sale in Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The agency said the shop had come to its inspectors' attention when a shipment was rejected at customs in Montreal because it contained meat.

The coloring has been linked to hyperactivity. In addition, the "drinks and a yeast-based spread" found in the Brit Foods shipment and subsequently on the shelves in the shops were not approved for sale in Canada. The agency did not list specific brand names. It said the spread was banned because it contained added vitamins "not permitted to be added to spreads" under Canadian food regulations.

Tony Badger, who owns a chain called Brit Foods, told local media that food safety officials blocked a large import shipment of the popular products.Badger said he had been selling the items since 1997.

Food safety officials confirmed some items were barred for sale but said only meat was removed from the store. "We've been bringing Irn-Bru in since the very beginning,"  said Tony Badger. The bright orange caffeinated drink is particularly popular in Scotland, but sold in countries around the world. " we were importing legally. We've been declaring it through a customs broker and we've never had an issue until now," said Badger.

Canada does not allow importation of beef products from the UK. The CFIA said that during a follow-up visit to Brit Foods the meat was "placed under detention because of improper documentation. But the agency said the drinks and spread found at Brit Foods shops, while in violation of Canada's food safety laws, were not a health risk and were not removed from the store shelves. "These are technical violations of the regulations," "There is no food safety risk associated with these products." the agency said in a statement.

Badger said he first ran into trouble in October when his Christmas stock was seized as it was imported from Britain. He is worried he will no longer be able to import the popular items. "The concern now is, with the next shipment, if it gets held there may be new issues with new products, so it somewhat paralyses our ability to bring new product in," he said, adding the delays had already cost him thousands of dollars. But he said the agency was now conducting a health assessment on the foods to determine whether they were fit for sale. "I haven't heard of anyone dying from consuming Irn-Bru in Scotland or Britain," he said,  " hopefully we will get a favorable decision."

One customer, Briton Nigel Westwick said that he "couldn't understand the insanity" of preventing Irn-Bru from entering Canada. "For a country that allows one to buy firearms, guns, bullets. Literally everything..Stopping a soft drink suitable for all ages seems a little ludicrous."

The CFIA has initiated an investigation and would take appropriate action as needed.

Capitalist  countries with imperialist intent, Canada and Britain along with USA have been cooperating  globally  as  being parts of  the notorious NATO that  sucks the blood of  Arabs and other Muslims  around the world and, as such,  they  could try  all available  channels  to  sort out the problem.- as the cricketism nations  led by UK-India-Australia , seeking  fake  rankings and h more money for cricketers, generally  undertake..

After all, multinationals and arms merchants  control the regimes all over the world.  .