This recall involves Jululu Bijoux brand pacifier clips. These pacifier clips have 6 or 7 silicone beads on a satin ribbon, with a crocodile clip on the end used to attach the pacifier to the child’s clothing.
Only those pacifier clips that have the clip shown in the image on the left are affected by the recall.
The crocodile clip can break and small pieces can detach, presenting a choking hazard for young children.
Health Canada has not received any reports of consumer incidents or injuries related to the use of this product. Jululu Bijoux has received reports of nine incidents involving breakage of the pacifier clip. Jululu Bijoux has not received any reports of injuries.
For some tips to help consumers choose safe toys and to help them keep children safe when they play with toys, see the General Toy Safety Tips on the Healthy Canadians website.
Between 200 and 300 of the defective pacifier clips were sold in Canada, in the province of Quebec only. The recalled pacifier clips were sold from April 29, 2016, to May 19, 2016.
Consumers should immediately remove the recalled pacifier clips from the reach of children and return them to the purchase location for a full refund.
For more information, consumers may contact Jululu Bijoux by visiting the company’s website (in French only).
Atkins Nutritionals Inc. is recalling Atkins brand bars containing sunflower seeds from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.
What you should do
If you think you became sick from eating a recalled product, call your doctor.
Check to see if you have recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die. There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products.
Affected products
Brand name
Common name
Size
Code(s) on product
UPC
Atkins Day Break
Chocolaty Hazelnut Bar
200 g (5 x 40 g bars)
Best Before 2016 OC 23
K5296 4
and
Best Before 2016 DE 16
K5350 4
This recall involves Joe Fresh® Baby Girls Denim Overalls in blue with white polka dots with the style code BGU6OP1905.
The recalled product can be identified by the following size and UPC number located on the tag inside the romper:
Size
UPC
0-3 MONTHS
57197 39441 2
3-6 MONTHS
57197 39442 9
6-12 MONTHS
57197 39443 6
12-18 MONTHS
57197 39444 3
18-24 MONTHS
57197 39446 7
Hazard identified
The snaps on the bib of the romper may fall off resulting in a choking hazard for children. Health Canada has not received any reports of consumer incidents or injuries related to the use of the Baby Girls Denim Overalls.
Loblaw Companies Limited has received one report in Canada of the snap coming off, with no injuries.
Approximately 954 of the recalled Baby Girls Denim Overalls were sold at Loblaw Companies Limited banner stores across Canada.
On certain vehicles, the secondary hood latch can potentially disengage due to a tolerance build-up between the latch and catch mechanisms. If the vehicle were to be driven with the primary hood latch disengaged, there is a potential that the secondary hood latch may not hold the hood closed as designed while the vehicle is in motion. If this were to occur, it could compromise the drivers ability to see the road and its users, as well as cause damage to the windshield. These issues could result in a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will replace the secondary hood latch catch with a revised component. Note: There would be a visual warning in the instrument cluster to indicate that the primary latch would be disengaged, and for Limited and Ultimate trim models, there would be an additional audible warning.
On certain vehicles, the stop lamp switch may not have been installed properly causing and intermittent contact that could repeatedly cause the switch to cycle on and off. Over time, this may result in the stop lamp relay sticking in the on position, causing the stop lamps to remain illuminated. This could also impair the brake-shifter interlock, allowing the vehicle to inadvertently be shifted out of park position. These situations could increase the risk of a crash or a vehicle roll away causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will inspect the stop lamp switch for proper installation, if the switch is not installed correctly it will be re-positioned and the stop lamp relay will be replaced.
Quaker Canada, a business unit of PepsiCo Canada ULC, is recalling Quaker Harvest brand Quinoa Granola Bars and Spitz brand Sunflower Kernels from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.
What you should do
If you think you became sick from eating a recalled product, call your doctor.
Check to see if you have recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
This recall was triggered by the company. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is conducting a food safety investigation, which may lead to the recall of other products. If other high-risk products are recalled, the CFIA will notify the public through updated Food Recall Warnings.
The CFIA is verifying that industry is removing recalled product from the marketplace.
The Food Recall Warning issued on June 3, 2016 has been updated to include additional product information. This additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) food safety investigation.
Saputo Inc. is recalling Neilson brand Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.
This recall applies to Neilson brand Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk manufactured by Saputo’s Georgetown, Ontario facility (Plant registration # 1590). The Plant Registration Number “1590” that appear on packages can assist consumers in identifying the affected products.
What you should do
If you think you became sick from eating or drinking a recalled product, call your doctor.
Check to see if you have recalled products in your home. Recalled products should be thrown out or returned to the store where they were purchased.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
Background
This recall was triggered by findings by the CFIA during its investigation into a foodborne illness outbreak. The CFIA is conducting a food safety investigation, which may lead to the recall of other products. If other high-risk products are recalled, the CFIA will notify the public through updated Food Recall Warnings.
The CFIA is verifying that industry is removing recalled products from the marketplace.
Affected products
Brand name Common name Size Code(s) on product UPC
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 4 L All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 00047 3
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 2 L All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 00042 8
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 1 L All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 00043 5
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 750 ml All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 10068 5
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 473 ml All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 10023 4
Neilson Partly Skimmed Chocolate Milk, 1% m.f. 237 ml All Best Before dates up to and including JN22 0 66800 10017 3
On Sunday, a blaze in a 3-Storey, building in the sector of Chomedey, Laval caused 4500 homes to be without electricity, and at least 20 people had to be evacuated from their homes. When the firefighters arrived at the 8-unit apartment, the roof was in flames. The fire started at about 15:45pm at 760 boulevard Laval and was contained by 18h45pm.
No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire was due to an electrical fault.
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) would like to remind air travelers that credit card-size utility knives are not permitted in carry-on or checked baggage. These items are concealed knives and, as such, are illegal under the Criminal Code of Canada. Recently, CATSA has seen a marked increase in the number of credit card knives being intercepted across security checkpoints.
When a screening officer finds a credit card knife, the police must be notified. This causes undue delays at the checkpoint for all passengers and can lead to criminal charges and prosecution against the person carrying the item.
Before going to the airport, passengers are invited to consult the CATSA Website for information and tips on how to prepare for security screening. Questions can also be directed to 1-800-294-2202 or on Twitter @catsa_gc.
CATSA is a Crown corporation responsible for:
Pre-board screening – the screening of passengers, their carry-on baggage and their personal belongings;
Hold-baggage screening – the screening of checked baggage;
Non-passenger screening – the random screening of non-passengers; and
Restricted Area Identity Card – the administration of access control to airport restricted areas through biometric identifiers.
(SOURCE: Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) )
If you were training in track and field either for self development or for the more serious purpose of one-day competing in the Olympics, wouldn’t it be nice knowing that your trainer is one of the top three sprinters Canada ever produced?
Six years after retiring from competition, Chomedey-born Olympian Nicolas Macrozonaris – who became the third-fastest Canadian in history behind sprinting legends Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey – is training a new generation of sprinters out of his Finalpush Athletics Track Club which meets at the Claude Robillard Sports Complex in Montreal.
The making of a sprinter
Since Nicolas’ mentor and agent was Surin himself, who won the gold for Canada in the 4×100-metre relay at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, there’s every reason to believe that Nic – who competed in two Olympics and in 2003 managed to beat then-world sprinting record holder Tim Montgomery – will be giving back to the sports community by helping raise two highly promising sprinters to the best they can achieve.
Nicolas’s top two protégés are Costa Blidjios, a 60-meter junior provincial champion, and Praise Omogbai, a 60-meter and 200-meter juvenile provincial champ. Both are western Laval residents. They went to provincial indoor championships held in Sherbrooke earlier this year where, according to Nicolas, “they competed with the best in the province” and won.
The two sprinters’ times have improved quite dramatically, according to Macrozonaris.
Inspiring athletic excellence
While they’re both Quebec champions now, Nic describes Praise as “amongst the best in the country right now in her age category. Both are phenomenal athletes. Both are extremely hard workers. I feel that sometimes working so hard for such long periods of time just gives them more and motivation to go further. That’s why I’m glad to share the news about them to hopefully inspire other young kids in our region and our communities towards athletic excellence.”
Praise, 13, a grade-eight student at Laval Junior Academy, is a double gold medalist having won medals in provincial 60-meters and 200-meters sprinting events, while Costa, 18, and a second-year student at Montreal’s Vanier College, is a 60-meter champion in his age category.
Before deciding to concentrate on sprinting, Costa played high school football for five years. Prior to that he trained in martial arts. Nicolas Macrozonaris was the catalyst who ignited Costa’s zeal first for track and field and then for sprinting.
Training with the best
“I hadn’t even thought about track and field until I met Nic and he asked me to come train with him,” he said. “I don’t think I could have found a coach that was any better than Nic. I mean he’s been there, he’s done that so he really knows his stuff.”
Praise started to acquire her taste for track and field at an earlier age than Costa, albeit with some reluctance at first. “When I was in grade five and six I was part of a track team, but I wasn’t really serious about it, I didn’t really like it,” she said. Then her parents began encouraging her “and I started liking it more and more.”
In addition to her sprinting interest she also plays basketball at Laval Junior Academy and has proven to be fairly proficient at longjump. “I think Nic has really helped me to improve more and more,” she said of her trainer. “I’ve gotten faster. The training really helps.”
Surmounting challenges
Nicolas described how Costa first had to surmount challenges before he could succeed. “When he went to the provincial championships where it all counts and they give out all the medals, that’s where he was able to execute and run the best race of his life.” Costa agreed that faced with reality, it was at the provincials that everything he’d done leading up to the moment finally connected.
Nicolas described Praise as an athlete who has worked “very consistently and very hard and she’s very cerebral as an athlete. She understands quickly. There’s a saying, ‘Learn fast or get left behind quick.’ She understands quickly what needs to be done. She started off with good times and continously has worked hard to become faster and faster.” According to Nic, Praise competed at the provincials with girls three years older and finished a highly respectable third despite the age difference.
Some notable improvements
Since training with Nicolas, Costa’s time in 60 meters has gone from 7.77 secs. to 7.23. “In the world of running that’s a big improvement,” said Nic. For her part, Praise started off the current season at 8.30 secs in 60 meters and has dropped to 7.79, which her trainer calls “a huge improvement.” For the record, Nic’s 60-metre personal best, set in Montreal in 2002, was 6.56 secs.
While Costa’s sprinting dreams are fairly modest (he wants to make the McGill University track and field team) while studying medicine at McGill at the same time, Nic said about Praise, “I think she has potential to do very, very well at the international level.” Looking far ahead, she’s considering medicine as a possible career choice.
What Nic always tells his protégés is that “school is a priority. If they can use the sport to experience things in life, great. But I feel that they both have a bright future in academics, but also in athletics. Athletics is temporary, but education will be with them for the rest of their lives.”
