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5,~ p, va i t ~ Local poultry processor recognized for food safety T & R Sargent Fartas Ltd., a local poul- tty processor, was recagnized yesterday for being thse ftrst company in Canada ta be certifted in a new food safety prograto. Provincial Minister of Agriculture and Food Steve Peters presented the first Hazard Analysis Critical Contrai Points (HACCP) Advantage certificate ta Sargent Fartas yesterday morng. HACCP Advantage is a science-based food safety systeta designed far smali and medium-sized food processars. is focus ts an hazard identification and preventian. Sargent Fartas is thse ftrst pravincially- licenced primaty processor in Canada ta achieve this standard of food safety. "What's so important today ts Sargent Fartas agreed ta be the catalyst ta move this (HACCP) forwacd. Il has ta start somewhere," said Mc. Peters. "This is thse first not just in Ontario. but ail over Canada." He said RACCP will serve as a model tIsaI will be looked at ail across Canada. "Wr can't rest on tIse laucels of today's annaunicement. We need ta get tIse message out that HACCPAdvantage warks." He added thc prograrn tan't expeosive ta implement, and its benefits; are numnerous - most notably. saler food. "'he engine that feeds the province is tIse food industty. WIsat keeps it driving in Uic province is people like Uic Sargents," Mc. Peters said, referring ta Tom and Bob Sept 18,65:018m Sargent. president and vice-president of thse company. Pat Johnson of the Ontario M4inistry of Agriculture and Food said Sargent Fartas volunteered ta be "gumnea pigs' ta test thse new standards prograto that led ta yester- day's certification. The HACCP Advantage was originally designed in thse 1960s ta help ensure thse microbialogical safety of food for thse NASA space prograta. Ontario Africuture Mid -Food Minister (right) presents a H Ac cPI certIf Icaté t0 T&R S ar gent ferm vice- president Sargent me compony prefident $argent MW ROY aud"tr of t It a Canadien Good Food Good Music and A Lot of Feu!!! Fally Lkessed LopPd. Gd ~ ît LqeiB.tfs i 905-8y~a76-3018 te,,.a A v a ta 1t Ontario Agriculture and Food Minister Steve Peters congratulates T&R Sargent Farina yesterday. COUtinTy IL Endl of 5caboni UIQV gyoff ONE PAY ONLY %5epemiýer l"., ý 2(ô5 Main 5t. E. Powntown 905-b7b-1070 A --j S20