Insights and Stories on CFIA

Canada to check India’s feed corn for aflatoxin

May. 26, 2015 at 8:24 pm CDT

All feed corn coming to Canada from India is now going to be held and tested for aflatoxin, as high levels of the toxins have recently turned up in organic corn from the country. Importers of corn — organic or otherwise — from India, starting immediately, first must sample the […]

Potato ‘fields’ clarified for cross-border trade

May. 21, 2015 at 8:13 pm CDT

By Staff

H5N8 avian flu found in Indiana

May. 11, 2015 at 7:56 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

H5N8-positive wild duck found in B.C.

May. 4, 2015 at 6:43 pm CDT

By Staff

Canadian beef again moving to China

May. 1, 2015 at 5:31 pm CDT

By Staff

Third Ont. farm with avian flu cleared of birds

Apr. 28, 2015 at 7:49 pm CDT

Updated, April 29, 2015 — Ontario is urging poultry farmers to look into the AgriStability income stabilization plan, after the province’s third poultry farm to catch H5N2 avian flu this month has put down all its turkeys. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Monday that “humane depopulation” has already been […]

By Staff

Second avian flu control zone set up in SW Ontario

Apr. 22, 2015 at 6:04 pm CDT

A federal control zone has been officially set up for a 10-kilometre radius around the Oxford County chicken farm that’s home to Ontario’s second outbreak of H5N2 avian flu. This control zone, which covers ground in both Oxford County and Waterloo County, is an “internationally accepted practice,” meant to allow export […]

By Staff

Ont. chicken farm’s avian flu confirmed as high-path H5N2

Apr. 20, 2015 at 6:50 pm CDT

The avian flu that swept a broiler breeder chicken operation in southwestern Ontario’s Oxford County has been confirmed as highly pathogenic H5N2. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Sunday its lab tests in Winnipeg have confirmed the virus’ pathogenicity and subtype. The farm, southwest of Kitchener, was quarantined Saturday […]

By Staff

SW Ont. broiler farm quarantined with avian flu

Apr. 19, 2015 at 3:59 am CDT

A second poultry farm in southwestern Ontario’s Oxford County is now under federal quarantine with what tests show to be avian flu. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Saturday it had placed the farm — a broiler breeder chicken operation west of Ayr, Ont., south of Kitchener — under quarantine […]

By Staff

Zone coverage set up around SW Ont. avian flu site

Apr. 13, 2015 at 5:09 pm CDT

The only farm in Canada now in the midst of an avian flu cleanup is the centre of a new control zone, meant to limit the flu’s spread and keep Canada’s trading partners at ease. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Sunday announced it has set up an avian […]

By Staff

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