Health of Animals Regulations (C.R.C., c. 296)

170.1 Every person who imports, manufactures, packages, labels, stores, distributes, sells or advertises for sale any animal food for ruminants, equines, porcines, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, ratites or game birds shall establish and maintain written procedures to facilitate an effective recall of the animal food.

170.2 Every person who manufactures, imports, sells or distributes a fertilizer or fertilizer supplement containing prohibited material, other than a rendered fat, shall establish and maintain written procedures to facilitate an effective recall of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement.

• 171. (1) Every person who manufactures animal food for ruminants, equines, porcines, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, ratites or game birds shall keep, for 10 years, records that contain

  • (a) the formula for the animal food, including the name and weight of each ingredient used for each lot of the animal food;

  • (b) a mixing sheet that shows that each lot of the animal food has been produced in accordance with the formula referred to in paragraph (a);

  • (c) information as to whether or not the animal food contains any prohibited material;

  • (d) the date of preparation of the animal food;

  • (e) the lot number and any other information used to identify each lot of animal food; and

  • (f) the name and address of any person to whom any animal food is distributed or sold and a description of the food, including the name and quantity.

• (2) Every person who imports, packages, stores, distributes, sells or advertises for sale animal food for ruminants, equines, porcines, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, ratites or game birds shall keep, for 10 years, records that contain

  • (a) the name, the lot number and any other information used to identify the animal food;

  • (b) the name and address of any person to whom the animal food is distributed or sold and a description of the animal food, including the name and quantity; and

  • (c) information as to whether or not the animal food contains any prohibited material.

• (3) Every person who owns or has the possession, care or custody of a ruminant shall keep copies of all invoices for animal food that contains prohibited material.

• 171.1 (1) Every person who manufactures a fertilizer or fertilizer supplement containing prohibited material, other than a rendered fat, shall keep for 10 years records that are sufficient

  • (a) to demonstrate that the person

    • (i) has not used specified risk material in any form, whether or not incorporated into another thing, as an ingredient of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement, or

    • (ii) has used specified risk material in any form, whether or not incorporated into another thing, as an ingredient of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement only in accordance with a permit issued under section 160 for the purpose of section 6.4; and

  • (b) to facilitate an effective recall of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement.

• (2) The records shall include

  • (a) the name and address of any person who supplied the prohibited material to the person manufacturing the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement and a statement, signed by the supplier, that the prohibited material does not contain specified risk material or that it contains specified risk material in accordance with a permit issued under section 160 for the purpose of section 6.4;

  • (b) the formula for the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement, including the name and weight of each ingredient used for each lot of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement;

  • (c) a mixing sheet that shows that each lot of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement has been produced in accordance with the formula referred to in paragraph (b);

  • (d) the date of preparation of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement;

  • (e) any information used to identify each lot of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement; and

  • (f) the name and address of any person to whom any of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement is sold or distributed and a description of the fertilizer or fertilizer supplement, including the name and quantity.

• (3) In this section, “specified risk material” has the same meaning as in section 6.1.