What are novel feeds from plant sources?
Novel feeds from plant sources include any plants and products/by-products derived therefrom that: are not approved as livestock feed in Canada (not listed in Schedule IV or V of the Feeds Regulations) e.g. papaya and/or contain a novel trait e.g. herbicide tolerant soybean A novel trait is an intentional genetic modification that results in a feed that is not substantially equivalent in terms of use and safety to an approved feed ingredient derived from plants of the same species set out in Schedule IV or V of the Feeds Regulations. For those novel feeds containing a novel trait, it is the presence of a novel trait in a plant that triggers regulatory oversight, under the Feeds Regulations, not the method used to introduce the trait. Hence the plant rather than the process is subject to regulatory oversight. As such, novel feeds may be created by such methods as traditional breeding, mutagenesis, cell fusion, or recombinant DNA techniques. Substantive changes in agronomic, nutritional
