Rose-Marie Ur’s $1.5-billion amendment

Consumer groups are not impressed with the last minute committee amendment to C-27, adopted last June that would require about $1.5-billion worth of products--such as processed cheese, breads, and frozen desserts--to be reformulated.

The future of processed cheese, margarine, and that staple of starving university students, Kraft Dinner, will be in the hands of the House of Commons this fall when MPs vote on a controversial amendment to Bill C-27, the food regulation bill, that critics say could lead to empty shelves a...

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