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CFIA to continue PEDv hog trailer policy until May

Dec. 24, 2015 at 4:45 pm CST

Emergency federal protocols that have allowed empty hog trucks coming into Manitoba from the U.S. to be cleaned and disinfected on the Manitoba side of the border will now continue until May. In a producer newsletter Thursday, Manitoba Pork chair George Matheson said the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which had […]

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

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

SW Ontario pullet flock’s ILT contained

Jul. 3, 2015 at 7:12 pm CDT

A warning to southwestern Ontario’s poultry producers in May to step up biosecurity over a non-avian-flu-related disease outbreak has been lifted. The Feather Board Command Centre, the emergency response office for Ontario’s poultry and egg sector boards, last week issued a “stand down” for heightened biosecurity, following an outbreak of […]

By Staff