Canada feed exports hit

Exports of livestock feed from Canada to its main market, the United States, have been hit after salmonella bacteria was found in it.

The US Food and Drug Administration has now stopped canola meal from ADM Agri-Industries' crushing plant in Lloydminster, Alberta, after it detected salmonella bacteria, adding to a problem that has sharply cut canola meal exports to Canada's top market.

The Lloydminster plant is the second ADM plant in Canada to be placed on the FDA's import alert list, which allows inspectors to detain shipments without physically examining them.

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ADM's plant in Windsor, Ontario, was put on import alert for salmonella in canola meal – rapeseed – in December.

The FDA now has six major Canadian crushing plants on its import alert list.

Canadian canola meal is shipped to the US for use in livestock feed, especially in the California dairy industry.

The country is the world's top exporter of rapeseed, which is crushed mainly for its oil.

Canadian shipments to the US are down 41 per cent to nearly 549,000 tonnes.