Meat canning moving to Elmira

St. Jacobs, Ont.

After 10 years of holding its mobile meat canning operation at the University of Guelph, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario is being forced to move.

At a fundraising breakfast in St. Jacobs last month, Trevor Adams of MCC Ontario explained that another location is needed this year because new regulations from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency say that a mobile canner needs to be attached to a permanent building. Fire regulations and other safety concerns mean that the Guelph location is no longer suitable.

MCC Ontario and the meat canning committee are working with the federal agency to develop a new partnership with the Elmira Produce …