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Canadian Food Inspection AgencyThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is Canada's science-based regulator of food, plants and animals. As such, the CFIA is committed to enhancing the safety of food produced, sold or imported into Canada, contributing to the health of animals and protecting the plant resource base. To meet these commitments, the Agency administers and/or enforces 13 federal acts and their respective regulations. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency provides a range of laboratory services across Canada, including: chemical, microbiological and physical analytical services related to foods, feeds, fertilizers and seeds; diagnostic testing standards, technology development and transfer, laboratory accreditation, scientific advice and analytical capability for animal, fish and plant diseases and pests; technical expertise to support the development and operation of evolving inspection practices; and responding to consumer complaints. Visit our Web site at http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/toce.shtml. Contact Dr. Judith Bossé Canadian Food Inspection Agency The Agency laboratories are divided into four area networks:Atlantic Laboratory NetworkLaboratories located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Moncton, New Brunswick; and St. John's, Newfoundland, work in the areas of potato diseases; retrovirology; assays of marine biotoxins; fish chemistry and microbiology; sensory evaluation of fish and seafood products; foodborne pathogens; and food chemistry, including detection of mycotoxins and food allergens. Contact Dr. Robert Charlebois 93 Mount Edward Road Quebec Laboratory NetworkLaboratories located in St-Hyacinthe and Longueuil, Quebec, work in the areas of porcine indigenous diseases, retrovirology and detection of chemical residues and foodborne pathogens in fish and food products. Contact Sylvye des Marchais 3400 Casavant Blvd. West Ontario Laboratory NetworkLaboratories located in Mississauga, Scarborough and Ottawa, Ontario, work in the areas of avian and mycobacterial diseases, brucellosis, rabies, germplasm (semen and embryos of domestic livestock); evaluation of veterinary biologics; plant quarantine pests; foodborne pathogens of fish and food; and detection of residues and adulterants in foods. Contact Andrew Adams Animal Diseases Research Institute/ Western Laboratory NetworkLaboratories located in Winnipeg, Manitoba; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Lethbridge and Calgary, Alberta; and Burnaby and Saanichton, British Columbia, work in the areas of animal parasitology, bovine and equine indigenous viral diseases, foreign animal diseases, leptospirosis, anthrax, anaplasmosis, and diseases of non-traditional livestock; plant viral and phytoplasmal diseases; microbiology and chemical analyses of fish and seafood products; marine biotoxin assay; analyses and certification of seeds; analyses of foods, feeds, and fertilizers for pesticide and drug residues and for PCBs; detection of foodborne pathogens, food allergens and mycotoxins. Contact Dr. William D.G. Yates Animal Diseases Research Institute National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases (NCFAD)The foreign animal diseases laboratory is co-located with the Public Health Agency of Canada in Winnipeg. This laboratory specializes in foreign animal disease work for Canada. Contact Dr. Paul R. Kitching 1015 Arlington Street |
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