TORONTO -- Canada's food inspection agency has levied two fines in Ontario totalling $10,000 for mislabelling bottled water and selling chicken stored at inappropriate temperatures, among other things. Pino's Get Fresh was fined $5,000 after pleading guilty in Sault Ste. Marie to breaking the Food and Drugs Act and Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act.
The firm had sold chicken that wasn't stored at the proper temperature, indicated packages of pastrami and salmon weighed more than they actually did and failed to list ingredients on hotdog buns.
Albert Hounsell, a partner in the bottled water company Mount Pelion Water, was also fined $5,000. He pleaded guilty in November in Trenton to selling water labelled as "spring water" although it didn't actually come from a spring.