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American wigeons at Quebec’s Iles-de-Contrecoeur National Wildlife Area. (Environment Canada photo by Benoit Audet)

H5N8-positive wild duck found in B.C.

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff May 4, 2015

Ongoing surveillance of Canada’s wild birds has turned up the country’s first-ever case of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu, in a duck carcass at a British Columbia bird sanctuary. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Friday reported the case to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), noting such a detection in wild birds “should […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets

Canadian beef again moving to China

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff May 1, 2015

Federal inspectors are again issuing certificates for exports of Canadian beef to China, as Beijing’s temporary ban on the Canadian product comes to an end. The Chinese government in late February announced a temporary ban on imports of Canadian beef, shortly after Canada confirmed its first case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in a domestic […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Third Ont. farm with avian flu cleared of birds

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 28, 2015

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 completed at the Bright, Ont. […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Second avian flu control zone set up in SW Ontario

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 22, 2015

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 business to continue from non-infected […] Read more

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

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

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 20, 2015

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 after preliminary tests confirmed a […] Read more

Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

SW Ont. broiler farm quarantined with avian flu

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 19, 2015

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 after preliminary tests Friday at […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Zone coverage set up around SW Ont. avian flu site

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 13, 2015

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 flu control zone, which so […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Ont. turkey farm’s avian flu confirmed as H5N2

By Dave Bedard April 8, 2015

A quarantined southwestern Ontario turkey farm has been confirmed with the same strain of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian flu seen on farms in British Columbia and several U.S. states. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Wednesday that samples tested at its National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg have confirmed the virus’ subtype and […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Canada blocking poultry from Montana, South Dakota

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 4, 2015

Canada is blocking cross-border shopping for raw poultry, eggs and live birds from another border state, after H5N2 avian flu was confirmed in central Montana on Friday. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) on Friday expanded restrictions that block travellers to Canada from H5N2-positive states from bringing in live birds, hatching eggs, eggs, yolks, egg […] Read more

Livestock

CFIA defends meat inspection staffing, service levels

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 2, 2015

Shifts in federal meat inspection staffing levels and work priorities are the result of a “risk-based, outcome-based” approach to food safety, not cuts, Canadian Food Inspection Agency brass say. CFIA was responding this week to allegations by its inspectors’ union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada’s (PSAC) Agriculture Union, that the agency is “quietly unravelling” […] Read more

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H5N8-positive wild duck found in B.C.

Canadian beef again moving to China

Third Ont. farm with avian flu cleared of birds

Second avian flu control zone set up in SW Ontario

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

SW Ont. broiler farm quarantined with avian flu

Zone coverage set up around SW Ont. avian flu site

Ont. turkey farm’s avian flu confirmed as H5N2

Canada blocking poultry from Montana, South Dakota

CFIA defends meat inspection staffing, service levels

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