Dairy Farmers of Canada / Les Producteurs laitiers du Canada
Registration:
25
of
102
(2008-07-02
to
2009-07-13)
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Agreement on Internal Trade - Review of Chapter 9
- Implementation of Special Agricultural Safeguard for supply-managed products, dairy products in particular.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
- Implementation of new tariff rate quotas for milk protein isolates as per GATT Article XXVIII, Amendment to Customs Tariff (tariff line 3504). Work with Finance Canada, AAFC and DFAIT on implementation and allocation of said TRQ.
Policies or Program
- Animal Health - development of the National Farmed Animal Health Strategy with CFIA; development of the Code of Practice for the Care and handling of Dairy Cattle in cooperation with CFIA's activities in OIE
- Discretionary Food Fortification policy of Health Canada. DFC has particular interest in the discretionary food fortification of non-nutritious foods and vitamin fortification of dairy products
- Explicit and implied Health Claims related to dairy and non-dairy products
- Quality Milk Program - Implementation and administration of the Quality Milk Program under the Canadian On-Farm Food Safety Program of AAFC.
- Trans fats / Sodium as it relates to dairy products, Food Guide recommendations and nutritional labelling.
- Use of Veterinary Natural Health Products in dairy livestock production - Veterinary Drugs Directorate of Health Canada
- WTO Negotiations on Agriculture as it relates to supply management.
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Guide for Food labelling and Advertising in respect of all dairy products and use of dairy terminology (modifiers, highlighted ingredients)
Regulation
- Canadian Agricultural Products Act and Dairy Products Regulations with respect to standards for cheese;
Canadian Agricultural Products Act and Dairy Products Regulations with respect to standards for yogourt
Canadian Agricultural Products Act and Dairy Products Regulations with respect to standards for ice cream
- Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as they apply to all dairy product compositional standards, in particular those on cheese and yogourt;
Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as it applies to the labelling and grading of dairy products