Regulatory

Companies will soon be required to submit data to the Federal Plastics Registry on the quantity and types of plastic they put on the Canadian market.
Earlier this month, ANAC hosted a webinar for members to learn more about the registry and ask questions to gain clarification. If you missed it, the recording and slides are now available.

On December 15, 2022, the CFIA replaced the Automated Shipment Inspection Status Search Tool (ASISST) with an enhanced tool that provides access to the status of any food, plant or animal import declared electronically to the CFIA called the CFIA Shipment Tracker for Food, Plant and Animal products.

Health Canada recently shared that nearly 100 substances have pre-emptively been approved to have the in-feed route of administration added to their profile on the veterinary health product (VHP) List of Permitted Substances following successful Short Substance Applications (SSAs). If you are a company anticipating to notify a VHP to sell for incorporation into livestock feeds, get a head start by submitting your SSAs.

This announcement is for exporters of animal feed preparations not containing ingredients of animal origin to Taiwan. Animal feed preparations include preserved feed ingredients, calf milk replacer, piglet milk replacer, other stock feedstuff, poultry feedstuff, fish feedstuff, and other preparations for animal feeding.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) recently released new guidance on How to determine when a plant-derived ingredient requires a feed pre-market assessment. This guidance supplements the existing Guidelines for the assessment of novel feeds: Plant sources and incorporates feedback received during a consultation held on the document last fall.

Rendering plants holding a permit under the authority of the Health of Animals Regulations have until June 14, 2024 to submit their online questionnaire for the Establishment-based Risk Assessment model for renderers (ERA-Renderer model). All permitted rendering plants should have received an email from the CFIA with information on how to complete and submit the questionnaire. If you are a rendering plant and have not received this information, please contact Melissa Dumont (mdumont@anacan.org).