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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CAN/238/Add.2 
20 July 2006 
 
 (06-3504) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
  
 
 The following communication, received on 13 July 2006, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of Canada
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 Certain Ruminants and their Products Im portation Prohibition Regulations, No. 2
 
 
 Canada's prohibition regulations, which cover a range of currently prohibited 
US commodities, had to be reviewed prior to their expiry date (30 June 2006) .  The prohibitions were 
looked at with a view to achieving greater consiste ncy with standards of the World Organisation for 
Animal Health and to reflect changes in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) risk-
management approach to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).  The revised prohibition 
regulations ( Certain Ruminants and their Products Im portation Prohibition Regulations, No.2)  alter 
the prohibitions in several ways. 
 
 Only those cattle born before 1 January 1999 will remain prohibited.  This will allow a 
broader range of live animals, includi ng breeding cattle, to enter Canada. 
   As the removal of specific risk materials (S RM) from the food supply is now viewed as the 
single most effective measure to protect public health, emphasis is now placed on removal of SRM 
and methods of slaughter that do not create a risk for cross contamination of tissues.  Meat from 
animals of the sub-family Bovinae that have not been subject to a BSE slaughter process and from 
which the Bovinae specified risk material has not been removed are prohibited. 
  A number of additional exemptions for specific animals and animal prod ucts have been added 
and some are carried over from the previous prohib ition regulations because they are regulated by 
means such as the requirement for an import permit or a certification or because they are considered a 
low risk. 
 Although the situation has evolved to the po int where the prohibitions can be relaxed 
somewhat, it is important that certain import cont rols on animals and products imported from the US 
(such as sheep and goats pending consultation on a new import policy for those animals) remain in 
place because of the ongoing risk factors iden tified during the consultation and publication of 
Canada's BSE import policy.  It is, therefore, proposed to extend the duration of the importation 
prohibition regulations, but to narrow the prohibitions where it has been determined that the risk of 
BSE to Canada would be minimal. 
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  The revised Prohibition Regulations enters into force on 12 July 2006.  The previous 
Prohibition Regulations (G/SPS/N/CAN/238/Add.1) are repealed and replaced by the revised 
Prohibition Regulations ( Certain Ruminants and their Products Importation Prohibition Regulations, 
No. 2) . 
 
The revised Prohibition Regulations can be downloaded from:  
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/partII/2006/20060712/html/sor168-e.html
  
 or requested from:  
Canadian Enquiry Point 
Standards Council of Canada 200-270 Albert Street Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6N7 
Tel.:  (613) 238-3222 
Fax.:  (613) 569-7808 E-mail:  info@scc.ca 
 
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