CFIA slow off the mark Monday, October 3, 2011 The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) watched for a long time before it took Transport Eugène Nadeau Inc. to court for abusing animals it trucked and violating the Health of Animals Regulations. The Sainte-Marguerite, Que. company pleaded guilty in January of this year to seven counts of breaking those regulations between May 9, 2007 and Oct. 23, 2008. The offenses occurred in Rivière du Loup, Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Vallée-Jonction and Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot.According to a CFIA news release, on five occasions the company transported via motor vehicle pigs with significant hoof injuries, fractures, abscesses, arthritis or ulcerated hernias. The company was also convicted of loading pigs in such a way as to cause them injury or undue suffering, such as lifting by the tail. The transporting company was fined $35,000.Things move slowly at the CFIA. Remember that the company pleaded guilty in January? The CFIA news release on the conviction was posted on its website Aug. 30. BP How much intramuscular fat should your pigs have? 'This program is no ASRA'
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