Industry committee  CFIA doesn't get into tariff issues or taxes. It's only about food safety and labelling requirements, in that sense. Normally we try to work it out through consensus building and working with each other. I think the country of origin was a unique incident that went to the WTO, b

Industry committee  Right now I don't believe there's a formal standard. Normally, if they catch something that's non-compliant, it would just be turned away by the U.S. That's through their own import rules. We do, without question, have a good relationship in terms of, if we have any concerns tha

Industry committee  The short answer to that question is that it is not illegal to bring diafiltered milk into Canada. It's a perfectly legal product that's allowed to be used in a number of dairy products. CFIA's sole responsibility is to deal with the importation of food that is not legally allowe

Industry committee  That's right.

Industry committee  From the CFIA's legal perspective, our rules and regulations don't differentiate between the age of a bird. It's just poultry. As long as it says “chicken” or “poultry” it's not illegal or a falsely misleading label.

Industry committee  That's our law. Those are the regulations in place right now.

Industry committee  As I said, right now our laws do not differentiate. Poultry is poultry for the purpose of food safety and labelling.

Industry committee  I don't think that's the type of information that the CFIA would track. We mostly track non-compliances.

Industry committee  We do samples at the border of certain products. The determination of what product we sample and where it's coming from is based on historical figures of risk, and we're moving more and more towards that. As we find more non-compliances, then we target that product, and as we fin

Industry committee  It does change from year to year for what we do. I don't think the method of transport has any bearing. I think it's the food and where that food is coming from.

Industry committee  Health Canada, which is not us, plays an important role in certain food products and allowing them in certain processes that are allowed onto the market. For our part, the CFIA doesn't do pre-approvals of food products or technologies, per se. What we do rely on are the interna

Industry committee  That's where the new regulations come into play. The new regulations take out all that prescriptiveness of saying you must use this process, you must use this material, and you must do it in this way. It say, you have to address these risks. You have to do your hazard analysis. Y

Industry committee  We're hoping to make that change.

Industry committee  No, the regulations are still pending under the act. Drafts have been put out. They've been heavily consulted upon. Industry has been very excited about the potential to be able to do it.

Industry committee  Absolutely. That's what we're expecting. We'll be getting rid of those barriers that exist now.