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Quebec Maple Syrup Producer Caught Watering Down Product

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Radio-Canada uncovers maple syrup fraud: Quebec producer Steve Bourdeau caught watering down pure-labeled product with cane sugar, selling it cheaply to major grocery chains. Bourdeau admitted to undercutting rivals, but blamed an out-of-province supplier when confronted. Quebecs maple syrup industry, worth over a billion dollars, faces calls for stricter retail checks following the scandal.

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Quebec Maple Syrup Producer Caught Watering Down Product

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UK News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now!Quebec Maple Syrup Producer Caught Watering Down Product. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

On April 2nd, Radio-Canada investigators just exposed a big Quebec maple syrup producer for watering down his pure labeled product with cane sugar, and, hawking it cheap to major grocery chains like IGA and Metro. They ran a sting with fake buyer identities, secret recordings and lab tests at the Provinces Acer Center that proved the dilution was straight up. Deliberate cane shitter, not some mix-up. The producer, Steve Bordeaux, bragged on tape about undercutting rivals with cans under five Canadian dollars each, admitting it wasn't fully legal. But he pulled it off anyway until confronted, then he blamed an outer-provinced supplier. Quebec pumps out nearly three-quarters of the world's maple syrup, harvesting 239 million pounds last year in a one-billion dollar industry that's seen ice before, like that $18 million stockpile theft back in 2011. Bordeaux's note, bulk syrup gets tested 90% of the time, but can retail stuff often

slips through, so this scandal sparking calls for. Titered checks on that golden Quebec sap.

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