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Food safety regulatory agency in Canada
Health Canada moved in 2025 to remove cloned cattle and swine (and their offspring) from its “novel foods” definition, which means meat from cloned animals or their offspring can enter Canadian superm...
Canadian reporting and industry releases show a regulatory shift that would allow beef and pork from cloned animals or their offspring to enter Canada without pre-market novel‑food review or mandatory...
Canada does not currently publish a list of specific U.S. cheese “types” that are universally banned; instead, Canadian rules mainly prohibit the sale of cheeses made from unpasteurized (raw) milk unl...
Health Canada moved in 2025 to reclassify foods from somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloned cattle and swine and their offspring so they would no longer be treated as “novel foods,” a change that...
Canada’s dairy import rules remain tightly controlled in 2025: dairy imports require permits and tariff‑rate quotas (TRQs) with low within‑quota duties and very high over‑quota levies (examples: chedd...
Canada controls U.S. milk imports through a mix of trade-managed quotas and high over‑quota tariffs, detailed import permits and tariff‑rate quotas (TRQs) under the Export and Import Permits Act, and ...
There is has filed a formal complaint or legal challenge against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA); the coverage centers on a single, high-profile case involving Universal Ostrich Farms in Br...
Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have proposed removing foods from somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloned cattle and swine — and their offspring — from Canada’s “novel foods”...
Canada’s food regulators historically treated meat from somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloned cattle and swine — and their offspring — as “novel foods” requiring a pre-market safety assessment u...
No Canadian supermarket chain has publicly announced a pilot program to stock cloned or clone‑derived meat products in the reporting provided; coverage instead documents regulatory changes that could ...
Health Canada permits hundreds of additives but controls use by food category through the Lists of Permitted Food Additives and the Food and Drug Regulations; additives most often discussed as “harmfu...
Health Canada requires pre‑market safety assessments for food additives and maintains Lists of Permitted Food Additives; it will not authorize an additive or use that would make food unsafe and reasse...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is the federal authority that enforces disease response and food-safety rules for ostrich products in Canada, using statutory powers under the Health of Anim...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) proceeded with a court‑backed depopulation of a British Columbia ostrich flock after detecting highly pathogenic avian influenza; the operation used veterina...
British Columbia’s recent ostrich-farming controversy centers on an H5N1 avian influenza outbreak that prompted the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to order a large-scale cull, sparking protest...
The Canadian government ordered the cull of ostriches at a British Columbia farm because officials identified an and sought to prevent spread to people and the poultry sector; farm owners dispute the ...