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FOOD IN CANADA 3 3_Masthead.indd 3 15-08-28 11:36 AM WTI_ExtendedShelflifeAd_January2015_FIC_Layout 1 12/30/14 12:25 PM Page 1 A TRUSTED SUPPLIER FOR MORE T H A N 3 0 YEARS. Sign up for our enewsletters at contents www.foodincanada.com departments 6 Editorial 8 News File 18 Market Trends Market outlook and 44 highlights from Dr. Larry Martin and Associates. Water World Healthy, creatively 20 Focus on Food Safety flavoured plant-, Looking for food safety fruit- and leaders. vegetable-based waters address 22 Food Law consumers’ thirst Go to jail. Go directly for novelty and to jail. functionality. 24 Regulatory Affairs Allergen and precautionary allergen labelling makeover. features 35 Ingredient Spotlight 35 Luscious lavender. 26 Executive Roundtable This year’s roundtable, 47 Sensory Trends Searching for a clean-label solution to sponsored by Grant Thornton Pucker up to lemonade. 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Accent Alimentaire sur le Québec 48 The natural rainbow 67 Industry Insider New natural colours are 56 Nouvelles Brampton, Ont.-based bursting onto the food 60 Profil d’entreprise: fÜdi. scene in Canada, at the Fromagerie du same time costs are Presbytère 66 AD INDEX expected to steadily drop. 2015 1.800.827.1727|www.wtiinc.com 4 SEPTEMBER 2015 4-5_Contents.indd 4 15-08-28 11:41 AM WTI_ExtendedShelflifeAd_January2015_FIC_Layout 1 12/30/14 12:25 PM Page 1 A TRUSTED SUPPLIER FOR MORE T H A N 3 0 YEARS. Searching for a clean-label solution to extend the shelf-life See for yourself: of your products? WTI has your solution. Find out what a difference the right ingredient can make to your product, WTI offers a wide range of clean-label functional ingredients designed to improve food safety and extend product shelf-life. 2015 1.800.827.1727|www.wtiinc.com 4-5_Contents.indd 5 15-08-28 11:41 AM EDITORIAL Carolyn Cooper Labour pains One of the concerns I hear often from and behavioural skill sets required for food and beverage manufacturers is the hundreds of jobs in the food processing difficulty of finding and retaining skilled industry. The council will also document employees. It is even harder to find the essential skills, like writing and workers who are passionate about communications, needed for career building a career in the industry. advancement. There are some sectors — like meat The resulting online database will help processing — which are more greatly manufacturers hire new recruits, produce affected by this challenge, but it is an in-house training programs, and develop issue touching a wide range of food performance assessment tools. Educators businesses, from bakeries to ingredient will gain occupational standards to companies. On a company basis this develop training and certification means high turnover and less productivity, programs. By raising the level of profes- while on a national scale it translates into sionalism in the food industry, more less competitiveness for Canadian goods young workers will also hopefully be on the world market. attracted to the field. That could change with the help of While the project is scheduled for the Raising the Standards project, an completion next summer, this month initiative of the Food Processing Human the council will launch another program Resources Council (FPHRC) that is that may lessen the labour pains for “Our products may be healthier, but our margins aren’t.” the first of its kind in Canada. Part of employers. The Pre-Arrival Food Safety a larger human resources strategy, the Management Training Program will People who know Food & Beverage, know BDO. three-year project will build the first provide online and self-paced, accredited national competency library of occu- training of new immigrants from six pational standards for jobs within the different countries for careers in the food and beverage industry in the areas Canadian food processing industry, of business, finance and administration; meaning they will arrive with the skills technical/machine operation; facility and certifications needed to begin work. The Consumer Business Practice at BDO operations and maintenance; quality The initiative runs until March 2017. Food processors throughout Canada face an increasingly challenging business control; production; logistics; and For more information on either environment: changing consumer demands, ever-stricter regulations, and new research and development. program, contact the council at fphrc.ca competitors in a sector that’s already over capacity. BDO’s professionals offer signifi cant For more on the challenges The FPHRC has already had signifi- industry-specifi c experience, providing an exceptional range of partner-led services to and opportunities facing the cant buy-in from the industry. Through help you grow your business – no matter what the market conditions. food industry, turn to pg.26 focus groups and webinars the council for the 2015 Grant Thornton is engaging with stakeholders to identify Executive Roundtable and benchmark the detailed technical [email protected] Assurance | Accounting | Tax | Advisory www.bdo.ca/consumer-business 6 SEPTEMBER 2015 6-7_Editorial.indd 6 15-08-28 3:07 PM Seiter&Miller 001245 Pub. Food In Canada Size 8.125 x 10.875 Issue May 2014 Art Director: sd/lg Copywriter: ms Account Executive: em Date: 04/01/14 “Our products may be healthier, but our margins aren’t.” People who know Food & Beverage, know BDO.