Media Advisory - Media Briefing with Maple Leaf President and CEO on New Food Safety Protocols and Plant Tour


    TSX: MFI

    MONTREAL, Dec. 10 /CNW/ - Maple Leaf Foods (TSX/MFI) President and CEO
Michael McCain will hold a media briefing on December 12, to provide an update
on Maple Leaf Foods and the Company's new food safety protocols. The media
briefings will be preceded by a tour of its packaged meat plant in Montreal.Who:   Michael H. McCain, President & Chief Executive Officer, Maple Leaf
           Foods Inc.

    When:  Friday, December 12, 2008 at 12:15 p.m. Eastern

    Where: Hotel Le St-Martin
           1400 rue Maurice-Gauvin
           Laval, Québec
    Note:  A light lunch and refreshments will be served

    Details about the Montreal plant tour:

    How:   Please confirm attendance to reserve a spot: Limited places
           available.

    When:  First tour at 10:00 a.m. and second tour at 11:00 a.m.

    Where: 2525 ave Francis-Hughes, LavalMaple Leaf Foods Inc. is a leading food processing company, headquartered
in Toronto, Canada. The Company employs approximately 23,500 people at its
operations across Canada and in the United States, the United Kingdom and
Asia. The company had sales of $5.2 billion in 2007.

For further information:

For further information: For media inquiries, or to reserve a spot at
the briefing and/or the tour, please contact Wendie Godbout, (514) 908-0110,
ext.311, wgodbout@highroad.com