Consultation is a key activity of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). It supports open and transparent government. It allows for discussion among Canadians, and between Canadians and government, about designing, implementing and evaluating the following government activities:
- public policy
- regulation
- programs
- accountability
Current consultations
- Share your thoughts: Proposed amendments to the Canadian beef, bison and veal carcass grade requirements (consultation by the Canadian Beef Grading Agency)
- Share your thoughts: Proposed amended livestock feed ingredient – Chromium propionate
- Share your thoughts: Proposed new and amended livestock feed ingredients – Yeast-derived gut modifier ingredients
- Share your thoughts: Proposed amended livestock feed ingredients – Yeast biomasses from fermentation processes
- Share your thoughts: Proposed amendments to the Susceptible species of aquatic animals list - Abalone viral mortality (Abalone herpes-like virus), Bonamia exitiosa, Bonamia ostreae, Haplosporidium nelsoni, Marteilia refringens, Mikrocytos mackini and Withering syndrome of abalone (Xenohaliotis californiensis)
Completed consultations
Here are past CFIA consultations. Note: these consultations are now closed to further comments.
Consultative groups
The CFIA engages with stakeholders in its principal role as a regulator. These stakeholders are from the following groups:
- regulated parties: individual companies and representative industry associations and, in some cases, academia and government institutions
- consumers/Canadians: consumers and consumer associations, provincial and municipal governments, and non-governmental organizations and groups
- international stakeholders: foreign governments, international organizations
- current consultative groups