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- Learn how to travel with your dog (export) from Canada to the United States, including the required paperwork and health checks needed for your pet to enter the U.S.
Program: Animals
- This directive contains the requirements governing the importation of grapevine propagative material from all countries.
Program: Plants
- Below is a list of CFIA accredited certification bodies within Canada that certify organic products under Part 13 of the SFCR.
Program: Food
- Countries officially recognized by Canada as free of notifiable avian influenza.
Program: Animals
- The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) inspection staff on standard commodity inspection procedures related to ingredient verification, in order to ensure they…
Program: Food
- This document was developed to provide guidance to inspection staff on procedures for sample collection of official food samples under the Food Business Line.
Program: Food
- Some vitamins, mineral nutrients and amino acids can be added to foods. Provisions for the mandatory or voluntary fortification of foods are set in food standards in the Food and Drug Regulations.
Program: Food
- A reference table of foods to which vitamins, mineral nutrients and amino acids may or must be added, listing the specific nutrient and the regulatory reference. Examples on how to validate if nutrient content…
Program: Food
- The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) inspection staff on the procedures to follow when ordering removal or destruction of an imported food commodity;…
Program: Food
- United States of America (US) – Export requirements for meat and poultry products.
Program: Food