Regulatory

A 30-day consultation period is now open for the proposed new single ingredient feed (SIF) description for tannic acid. Please submit any comments on this SIF definition directly to the Animal Feed Program (cfia.afp-paa.acia@inspection.gc.ca) by April 28, 2024.

The CFIA released several updates to the Compendium of Medicated Ingredient Brochures (CMIB) in the month of March. These updates are detailed in the post.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) adjusts its service fees annually based on the Consumer Price Index in accordance with the Service Fees Act. This requirement ensures that the CFIA’s service fees keep pace with inflation.

Employers of federally regulated industries (including feed mills) should have adjusted payrolls on April 1, 2024 to reflect the new federal minimum wage of $17.30 per hour.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has published a new guidance document in chapter 1 of Regulatory Guidance 1 (RG-1): 1.7 Priority status and review of feed applications. This guidance provides the criteria and the process by which feed applications may be prioritized for evaluation ahead of applications already in the queue.

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Beginning in May 2023, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) implemented a new consultation approach for livestock feed ingredients. To ensure members are kept informed of additions to the CFIT, ANAC has created a new feature in The Feed (ANAC’s bi-weekly newsletter). This new section entitled Ingredient Description Updates will provide links to CFIA’s recently published What We Heard Reports on SIF descriptions.

Government’s Bill C-58, banning the use of replacement workers in federally regulated industries (including feed mills) during a legal strike or lockout, unanimously passed second reading in the House of Commons on February 27.