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As ‘Buy Canadian’ surges, companies trip over ‘maple-washing’ mistakes

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As ‘Buy Canadian’ surges, companies trip over ‘maple-washing’ mistakes

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Buy Canadian@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 days ago

As of March 18, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has found six companies to be non-compliant with country-of-origin labeling rules after a spike in complaints

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This seems a bit extreme, especially given that nothing illegal has happened.

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