The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), through the Canadian Centre for Veterinary Biologics (CCVB), has revised the withdrawal period for certain licensed poultry vaccines against infectious bronchitis and infectious bursal disease from 21 days to 7 days, effective February 2, 2026. This change is expected to improve poultry health and welfare without impacting food safety.
Livestock and poultry veterinarians involved with extra-label use of drugs for food animals now have an improved – and vitally important – e-resource available to them.
CgFARAD recently received support from the Livestock Research Innovation Council and Growing Forward II to create a more powerful and flexible CgFARAD database at the University of Saskatchewan, and renovate a University of Guelph lab for tissue culture research focused on drug interactions and metabolism in food producing animals.
Dr Trisha Dowling of the CgFARAD discusses the rising threat of antimicrobial resistance.
