Dairy Farmers of Canada / Les Producteurs laitiers du Canada
Registration:
76
of
103
(2018-11-01
to
2018-11-22)
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Agreement on Internal Trade - Review of Chapter 9
- Canada-EU Trade Agreement
EU stands for European Union. The components within this negotiation that we are interested in are agriculture and protection/exemption of supply management.
- Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as it applies to the labelling and grading of dairy products
- Implementation of Special Agricultural Safeguard for supply-managed products, dairy products in particular.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
- Climate Change / Environment
Farm practices for greenhouse gas mitigation; documenting programs that exist provincially and federally that are available to dairy producers; promoting best management practices
- 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.
- Research
Under "Growing Forward", the federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food announced a research cluster, in cooperation with Dairy Farmers of Canada, worth $12M.
- Traceability
Under "Growing Forward", the establishment of regulations for traceability. Collaborating with provincial and federal governments in the determination of private and public interests and in discussions with Ministers re government/industry share of costs.
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 (Organisation mondiale de la Santé Animale)
- 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
- Growing Forward
This is a federal-provincial agreement with oversight for many of our issues (Business Risk Management, Research, etc.)
- Product of Canada consultations
Dairy Farmers of Canada participated in federal government consultations on regulations pertaining to "Product of Canada".
- 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 (World Trade Organization) 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)
- Ingredients
Industry stakeholders discussion on domestic ingredient strategy, pricing of components, marketing of ingredients. Involves discussions with the Canadian Dairy Commission.
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 ice cream
- Canadian Agricultural Products Act and Dairy Products Regulations with respect to standards for yogourt
- Discretionary Food Fortification
Governed by Food and Drug Act and the Agricultural Products Marketing Act
- Food and Drug Act and its accompanying regulations as they apply to all dairy product compositional standards, in particular those on cheese and yogourt;