Prevention, Preparedness, Response, & Recovery

As part of our role in emergency preparedness, CCA has pulled together resources to help producers mitigate risks to their animals relating to animal health and extreme weather. Please feel free pass along this information to your neighbours. We all have a part to play in protecting our industry from risks related to animal health and the impacts of extreme weather.

Resources:

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Check back often as we will continually add new resources as they become available.

Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)

CCA Briefing Note: Foot & Mouth Disease, International Travellers Awareness

Protect Your Farm: Prevent Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)

On-Farm Biosecurity Resources, BCRC

Canadian Beef Cattle On-Farm Biosecurity Standard, CFIA

Extreme Weather

Livestock Evacuation Documentation Form, Animal Health Canada

Structure Fire and Wildfire resources, Animal Health Canada

Flooding Resources, Animal Health Canada

Severe Drought Resources, Animal Health Canada

Disease Response

Canadian Livestock Diseases, CFIA

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Post-BSE Negligible Risk Priorities

CFIA, GAC and AAFC in collaboration with industry are developing a comprehensive inventory of trade related files that would (or could) be positively impacted by Canada’s transition to Negligible Risk for BSE.

Canada achieved negligible risk status for BSE in 2021. In the new post-BSE era the CCA is working to fully capitalize on this status.
The Canadian beef industry’s three main BSE-related priorities are:

1. Alignment of specified risk material removal with the US
2. Removal of the remaining BSE market access barriers
3. Removal of the unnecessary feeder and replacement export requirements for the US
Learn more about BSE 

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National Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Vaccine Bank

National species groups who would be affected by FMD have provided detail annual cost estimates relating to traceability, biosecurity, and animal health. A final report has been completed and calculates annual industry (Beef, Dairy, Pork, and Sheep) contributions to emergency prevention and preparedness including traceability, biosecurity, and animal health are estimated at over $62M. It has been estimated that a large-scale outbreak of FMD could have over a $65 billion impact to Canada’s GDP.

CCA is pleased with the Government of Canada’s Federal Budget 2023 commitment of $57.5 million over 5-years to establish a Canadian FMD vaccine bank and emergency response plans. The beef sector is collaborating closely with the CFIA, Animal Health Canada, and other at-risk species to develop delivery and deployment plans for the vaccine bank.
Learn more about FMD