Insights and Stories on CFIA

Canada’s no-buy list for poultry, eggs down to two states

Jan. 7, 2016 at 6:15 pm CST

Canada is now warning cross-border travellers to the U.S. against bringing in raw poultry and eggs from two states, down from six at the end of 2015. As of Tuesday, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, travellers entering Canada from the U.S. may not bring in uncooked poultry products, […]

CFIA to continue PEDv hog trailer policy until May

Dec. 24, 2015 at 4:45 pm CST

By Staff

Feed was ‘most plausible’ source of BSE in Case 19

Dec. 3, 2015 at 4:50 am CST

By Staff

USDA regulators approve new Syngenta corn trait

Dec. 2, 2015 at 7:31 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Poultry, eggs from seven U.S. states still blocked at border

Nov. 30, 2015 at 3:01 am CST

By Staff

EU to resume beef exports to Canada

Oct. 20, 2015 at 5:58 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters –– The European Union is to resume exports of beef to Canada from 19 of its member countries for the first time since 1996, when they were halted in the wake of the BSE scandal. The European Commission said Tuesday that Canada’s action was part of a […]

By Reuters

Canada now avian flu-free

Oct. 9, 2015 at 7:36 pm CDT

With no new cases in poultry since April and no farms in quarantine since July, Canada has officially declared itself free of avian influenza. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Thursday it has informed the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE) that Ontario is free of notifiable avian flu. No […]

By Staff

Avian flu controls lifted in 10 U.S. states

Aug. 7, 2015 at 5:37 pm CDT

U.S. animal health officials have closed the books for now on avian influenza infections in 10 states, with five others remaining. In its latest report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) last week, the U.S. federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said all control areas for […]

By Staff

Last of Ontario’s avian flu quarantines ends

Aug. 4, 2015 at 7:36 pm CDT

Movement of birds and bird products in, through and out of southwestern Ontario’s Oxford and Waterloo counties is no longer subject to federal quarantine. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Wednesday it has removed its second and final avian influenza control zone, which has been in place since April 21 […]

By Staff

BSE case’s traceout continues

Jul. 7, 2015 at 1:28 am CDT

Federal officials tracing out the herdmates of Canada’s 19th domestic case of BSE expect to have their final report on the case ready in late fall. Confirmed Feb. 11 as Canada’s first domestic case of the brain-wasting bovine disease since 2011, Case 19 was born in 2009 on the same […]

By Staff