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Canada: Ontario company violates Consumer Packaging Act

Canada: Ontario company violates Consumer Packaging Act

India Blooms News Service | | 13 Mar 2017, 03:00 am
Toronto, Mar 13 (IBNS): A tomato processing company had been charged with mislabelling its canned products as organic and passing off American tomatoes as Canadian, media reports said.

The company, Thomas Canning based in Maidstone just south of Windsor in southwestern Ontario, and owner William Michael Thomas were charged with labelling regular canned tomato products as organic to get a 20 percent premium and selling canned tomato paste under the brand Tree of Life, National Post reports said.

Thomas Canning had received a $3-million grant from the provincial government In 2014 to build a new fruit and vegetable processing facility but failed to keep its promise.

The company had also been lying to inspectors before and after the grant money began to flow.

On Thursday Federal prosecutor Paul Bailey admitted before the court of his recent knowledge that Michael Thomas and the Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas were first cousins.

Due to the unethical nature of the future proceedings by the court the case was adjourned till the next month.

Thomas and his company were accused of total 11 offences in contravention of three federal statutes: the Food and Drug Act, the Consumer Packaging Act and the Canada Agricultural Products Act.

(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)

 

 

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