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Mike Dungate Elected Chair of Canadian Centre for Food Integrity

The Canadian Centre for Food Integrity’s (CCFI) Board of Directors has elected Mike Dungate as chair of the board, a Nov. 2 news release said. Dungate replaces long-time chair Kim McConnell.

The release noted McConnell served as chair of the CCFI board since its inception in 2016. McConnell is a founder and the former CEO of AdFarm and has been the catalyst behind many major industry ventures including an initiative to build greater public trust in food.

Dungate is the former executive director of Chicken Farmers of Canada. He has been a director on the CCFI board since 2019 and vice-chair since 2020, the release said. Dungate has extensive board governance, business, human resources, and government relations expertise. He was a key contributor to the creation of the Public Trust Steering Committee and the Poultry Sustainability Value Chain Roundtable.

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White rot, also known as sclerotinia, is a common agricultural fungal disease caused by various virulent species of Sclerotinia. It initially affects the root system (mycelium) before spreading to the aerial parts through the dissemination of spores.

Sclerotinia is undoubtedly a disease of major economic importance, and very damaging in the event of a heavy attack.

All these attacks come from the primary inoculum stored in the soil: sclerotia. These forms of resistance can survive in the soil for over 10 years, maintaining constant contamination of susceptible host crops, causing symptoms on the crop and replenishing the soil inoculum with new sclerotia.