Health of Animals Regulations

46 (1) No person shall import meat and bone meal, bone meal, blood meal, tankage (meat meal), feather meal, fish meal or any other product of a rendering plant or manure into Canada unless

• (a) the person meets the conditions set out in sections 166 to 171;

• (b) the product originated

  • (i) in the United States as determined by Revenue Canada, Customs, or

  • (ii) in a country other than the United States and

    • (A) the country of origin, or the part of that country from which the product originated, is designated as free from any reportable disease or other serious epizootic disease to which the species that produced the product is susceptible and that can be transmitted by the product, and

    • (B) the person produces a certificate signed by an official of the government of the country of origin that shows that the country of origin, or the part of that country from which the product originated, is the designated country or part referred to in clause (A); and

• (c) an inspector is satisfied that it is processed in a manner that would prevent the introduction of any reportable disease or other serious epizootic disease to which the species that produced the product is susceptible and that can be transmitted by the product in Canada.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to manure found on a vehicle that is entering Canada from the United States and that has been used to transport animals, other than swine, where the manure was produced by those animals.