This biosecurity program is a fairly thick document. It's voluntary for beekeepers at this time, but it touches on a lot of issues, and there is some overlap with some food safety. We've tried to condense it into a user-friendly single manual.
There has been a reasonably good uptake so far for beekeepers, but we still would like to see a lot more uptake. The Canadian Honey Council is going to each provincial industry organization to try to roll this out and get beekeepers to know about it, to know it exists, to try to adapt it and to adopt it, and to use it in their operation. It's a valuable tool with suggestions for how to monitor and to try to take an IPM approach to controlling pests and disease.