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In 2018, Canada’s total food and beverage industry sector sales reached $87 billion.

Canada revised prescriptive beer compositional standards to better reflect and support a diversifying beer industry, while providing beer drinkers greater information about allergenic content.

Implementing recommendations from a provincial beverage alcohol review, Ontario proposed nearly doubling the number of LCBO Agency Stores in underserved communities and adding 87 grocery store license

Importing more than $16 billion of U.S. high-value, consumer-oriented goods, Canada was the number one overseas market for U.S. food and agricultural exports in 2017.

Beef cow numbers and slaughter activity will see contraction continue in 2019 but with the pace mitigated by reduced cow slaughter, growth in the calf crop and increased import activity.

Canada was once again the leading destination for U.S. food and agricultural exports in 2018, with total export value close to $21 billion.

FAS/Canada predicts increased canola area planted in marketing year 2019/20, despite increased volatility and uncertainty in global oilseed trade and ongoing agronomic concerns.

Canada’s ban on partially hydrogenated oils in foods came into force in September 2018.

In 2017, total Canadian food service sales reached $65 billion.

Canada’s ban on partially hydrogenated oils in foods came into force in September 2018.