WEDNESDAY October 10, 2012 Vol. 27 No. 81 ••• $1.25 inc. H.S.T.
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Fargo meets Dumb and Dumber in a new movie that features Comox Valley actor John Fitzgerald. page 12
The Comox Bay Sailing Club Race Team added to their 2012 season results in Victoria. page 29
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Where’s the beef, shoppers wonder Renee Andor
well, and they sell into some of the retail stores. I’ve got quite an extensive list of names there After the same strain of E. actually where people can buy coli found at a huge Albertan their beef. “I think the best thing that they beef supplier has appeared on Vancouver Island, some Comox (concerned beef buyers) could do Valley residents are looking at is, you know, maybe to talk to where their beef comes from more their butcher shops and stores and ask for local beef.” closely. Gunter Bros has a retail secThe BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) announced Monday tion, processes meats, and slaugha Vancouver Island man tested ters animals. It is provincially positive for E. coli O157:H7, the licensed as a Class A Slaughter same strain of E. coli seen in the Establishment by the BCCDC, and Gunter notes XL Food Inc. food the Canadian safety investigaWe have quite a Food Inspection tion. Agency provides According to few people who want inspection service. the BCCDC, the to know where the beef According to man (subsequentthe BCCDC webly identified as comes from, which is site, E. coli bactea Nanaimo resi- good … we source the dent) has recov- local farms around the ria are found in the stomach and ered, and the investigation into area, so the Comox Val- manure of cattle and sometimes the source is con- ley, you know, up and sheep, goats and tinuing. down the Island. deer. It lists variThis announceDennis Gunter ous ways for infecment came after a tion to spread to giant recall of beef from the company, which supplies humans, but one is when animals about one-third of the beef in are butchered, the gut is someB.C., according to the BCCDC’s times nicked by the knife, which can contaminate the carcass. Dr. Eleni Galanis. Gunter notes a focus on smallCloser to home, Gunter Bros Meat Co. Ltd. in Courtenay has er-scale slaughter and processing been fielding questions from cus- operations means there’s less risk tomers concerned about how their for contamination. “Just the sheer volume and beef becomes that steak on their the speed at which the product’s plate. “We have quite a few people put through on the slaughter who want to know where the floor (impacts the likelihood of beef comes from, which is good,” contamination),” says Gunter. says partner Dennis Gunter. “We “Like I mean, right now we have source the local farms around the one inspector and have today — area, so the Comox Valley, you there’s two people on the slaughter floor, so I mean the pace of know, up and down the Island. “We have quite a few custom- production, he’s got all kinds of ers that sell their own beef as ... see INDUSTRY ■ 2
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FOGGY MOUNTAIN FUN Kevin Flesher auctions a pie during Cumberland’s Foggy Mountain Fall Fair. The event Saturday featured music, food, fun and more. PHOTO BY EARLE COUPER
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