NECTAR DISPENSARY CONTAMINATED UPDATE

On April 9, 2021, Health Canada published a Proposal to Update the Maximum Level for Total Arsenic in Fruit Juice and Fruit Nectar in the List of Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances in Foods (NOP/ADP C-2021-2).

All prohibitions and MLs for contaminants in food are established by Health Canada's Food Directorate based on scientific evidence and in consultation with stakeholders and are enforceable by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Maximum levels are also set out in the List of Maximum Levels for Various Chemical Contaminants in Foods, which is maintained on Health Canada's website. Prohibitions and MLs for chemical contaminants in food are set out in Part 1 and Part 2, respectively, of the List of Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances in Foods, which is incorporated by reference into section B.15.001 of Division 15 of the Food and Drug Regulations (the Regulations). Establishing a prohibition or a maximum level (ML) are forms of risk management that may be employed to eliminate or reduce exposure to a particular chemical contaminant in food sold in Canada. These substances can either be inadvertently present in foods or in some cases intentionally added for fraudulent purposes. Progress in Planning, 75, 53–107.Notice of Modification – List of Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances in Foods Reference Number: NOM/ADM C-2022-3įood contaminants and other adulterating substances are chemicals that should not be present in foods at levels that could impact the overall safety and/or quality of foods. (2011) The dimensions of global urban expansion: estimates and projections for all countries, 2000‐2050. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 27, 83–94.Īngel, S.

(2003) The relative importance of birds and insects as pollinators of the New Zealand flora. (2021) Nitrogen assimilation varies among clades of nectar‐ and insect‐associated Acinetobacters. (2012) Zooming‐in on floral nectar: a first exploration of nectar‐associated bacteria in wild plant communities. (2013) Composition, richness and nonrandom assembly of culturable bacterial‐microfungal communities in floral nectar of Mediterranean plants. Environmental Microbiology published by Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. These results emphasize the interdependence of host, vector, and microbial diversity and demonstrate that human decisions can shape nectar microbial diversity in contrasting ways for bacteria and fungi. While fungal metacommunity composition and beta diversity in nectar were similar between suburban and rural sites, alpha diversity was elevated in suburban sites, which mirrored the trend of increased fungal alpha diversity on birds. However, when considering all the nectar sources present, suburban beta diversity was elevated compared to rural beta diversity due to turnover of bacterial taxa across a plant species and sugar-water feeders. These differences were not detected in the nectar of common plant species, suggesting that nectar filters microbial taxa and results in metacommunity convergence. Compared to rural birds, we found that suburban birds vectored different and more diverse bacterial communities. We asked whether communities of microbial (bacterial and fungal) in floral nectar and sugar-water feeders and vectored by nectar-feeding birds-thus forming a metacommunity-differed in composition and diversity between suburban and rural gardens. Yet, little is known about how host-associated microbial diversity responds to urbanization. As cities expand, understanding how urbanization affects biodiversity is a key ecological goal.

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