Animal Biosecurity

Putting preventive measures in place to keep animals healthy has been a long-standing and successful practice on Canadian farms. Biosecurity planning helps to ensure that practices routinely carried out on your farm are beneficial to animal health.

Animal Health Starts on the Farm

You may have seen our products from our national animal health campaign. Through this campaign, tools have been developed for producers to help promote biosecurity measures on-farm.

• Order Biosecurity Brochures, Video and Other publications - Animal Health Starts on the Farm

National Biosecurity Standards

The CFIA develops national biosecurity standards, protocols and strategies designed to protect animal resources in collaboration with producer organizations, provincial/territorial governments, and academia.

• National Biosecurity Standards and Biosecurity Principles

General Biosecurity Information:

• National Farm-Level Biosecurity Planning Guide Proactive Management of Animal Resources
• Biosecurity at the border
• Biosecurity for veterinarians
• Owning backyard flocks and pet birds
• Visiting farms and plant nurseries

General biosecurity measures for producers:

• Assess your biosecurity practices
• Monitor your animals
• See something? Say something - Reporting animal diseases

Notices to Industry

• 2011-12-07 - Protect animal and human health during flu season
• 2011-09-23 - National Farm-Level Biosecurity Standard for the Sheep Industry
• 2011-09-23 - National Farm-Level Biosecurity Standard for the Goat Industry
• 2011-01-21 - National Farm-Level Biosecurity Standard for the Dairy Sector
• 2010-11-04 - Seeking Input on Bee Biosecurity in Canada