C-61.1, r. 33.1 - Regulation respecting the sale, importation, possession and disposal of an animal or wildlife by-product

Section 3.4 Disposition versions

2024-09-19

3.4. Possession of embryos, semen, ovum or velvet antlers is prohibited unless they were collected from a cervid in captivity in a keeping facility to the extent that

(1)  on the day of the collection, there is no reasonable ground to believe that a cervid kept at the same facility is carrying chronic wasting disease of cervids;

(2)  the analysis provided for in section 134.2 of the Regulation respecting animals in captivity (chapter C-61.1, r. 5.1) was performed, as the case may be, by a laboratory approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency using a method approved by the latter, or by a foreign laboratory using the method approved by a competent authority of the foreign state where the facility in which the cervid is kept in captivity is located, on all large cervids over 12 months of age that were kept in captivity at the facility and that died in the 6 years preceding the collection;

(3)  in the 20 years preceding the collection, none of the cervids in captivity at the facility had been diagnosed with chronic wasting disease of cervids;

(4)  in addition to the conditions set out in paragraphs 1 to 3, at least one of the following conditions is met:

(a)  in the 6 years preceding the collection, no cervids in captivity at a keeping facility within a 45-km radius of the keeping facility holding the cervid from which a by-product was collected, or cervids living in the wild within a 100-km radius of that facility had been diagnosed with chronic wasting disease of cervids;

(b)  on the day of the collection, the perimeter elements of the keeping facility holding the cervid from which the collection was made prevented, for a period of at least 6 years, any contact between the cervids in captivity at the facility and cervids living in the wild;

(5)  in cases where, in the 6 years preceding the collection, a cervid from a different facility was introduced in the facility, on the day the cervid was introduced in the facility, or in the 6 or 20 years prior as the case may be, that other facility met the conditions set out in subparagraphs 1 to 4.

O.C. 1341-2024, s. 4.