CFIA – Meat and Fish Updates

The following is provided by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

The following has been added to CFIA’s website.

“Industry Notice- CFIA Monitoring of Aquacultured Fishfish for Steroids”

The purpose of this notice is to inform industry that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is testing for steroids in aquacultured finfish.  Monitoring for steroids is already underway in domestic aquacultured finfish, and will now begin in imported aquacultured finfish.  QMPI licence holders and domestic processors must ensure that their QMP plan is appropriately updated to include monitoring for this additional therapeutant.  As of July 1, 2016, CFIA will begin verifying that the QMP plan of QMPI importers is updated.

 

Export requirements under section 11.7.3, Annex W – United States of the Chapter 11 of the Meat Hygiene Manual of Procedures (MHMP), have been updated

Est. 086: add code 03B (raw product – not intact) for chicken, duck, lamb, mutton, turkey and veal.