How Does Canada protect food safety and animal health from BSE?
Canada, as well as many other countries, has taken precautions to prevent the introduction and spread of BSE. These measures include the following: • The creation of a surveillance program in 1992 in which the brains of high-risk cattle are tested for the disease. • Since 1997, Canada has banned the feeding of rendered protein products from ruminant animals (cattle, sheep, goats, bison, elk or deer) to other ruminants. • Making BSE a reportable disease in 1990, such that any suspect case of BSE must be reported to a federal veterinarian. • The creation of a Canadian Cattle Identification Program in 2001 for cattle and bison, making it possible to trace individual animal movements from the herd of origin to slaughter. • Controlling the importation of products that are assessed to have a high risk of introducing BSE into Canada. Canada only allows the importation of live ruminants and their meat and meat products from countries that Canada considers to be free of BSE. Canada also has add
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