Canadian poultry slaughterhouses will have to test carcasses for pathogens before chilling when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s new pre-chill policy comes into force Dec. 1, 2025. 			
		
			
				
	
	
	The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s pre-chill microbiological monitoring program for raw poultry comes into force Dec. 1, 2025
	
	Manitoba's sole HPAI control zone was removed in the second week of January
VETERINARY Manitoba’s sole HPAI control zone was removed in the second week of January
Manitoba’s poultry traffic could again flow normally after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Jan. 8 revoked the province’s only active control zone for highly pathogenic avian influenza. The control zone, which covered 14 square miles in the R.M. of Rhineland south of Plum Coulee, had been in place for two months. On Nov. 8, 2023, the CFIA announced that a premise in the area had broken
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