The establishment of a national system of food inspection in Canada

Over the past decade, public and professional concern over the links between diet and ill health has grown enormously but in the relative absence of discussion about the policymaking levers currently in place to handle what is seen by some as an emerging public health crisis. How will nutrition policymakers tackle these difficult emerging health policy issues? What are the nutrition policymaking levers that are currently available to reverse the increasing levels of nutrition-related problems, such as the rising levels of diabetes and obesity observed in the population?

The federal government's system of food regulation (because it develops food standards, regulates food quality, …