Safer Seafoods for Coastal BC First Nations Communities, BCCDC Foundation is Hiring, The Health of Our Planet Affects the Health of Our Population, and more in our July newsletter. Check it out!
In this guest blog post by Lorraine McIntyre, Food Safety Specialist with Environmental Health Services at the BC Centre for Disease Control, learn about how our changing climate and human activities is increasingly threatening seafood sources especially for Indigenous peoples along BC’s Pacific coast.
Interested in learning more about work the Foundation has facilitated? Here’s an excerpt from our 2015-16 annual report regarding a project we undertook with the BC Ministry of Health: “… partnership with the BC Ministry of Health to facilitate the amended Food Premises Regulation, whereby micro and small food processors in BC have become required …
The Foundation is pleased to announce that it’s Scientific Advisory Board has awarded grants for five new projects; one for workshop funding and four ‘Blue Sky’ research awards. Workshop Dr. Naveed Janjua and team have been awarded funds for “CDPC National Knowledge Exchange and Consultation on Supervised Consumption Services”, that together with funding from other sources, …
