Question No. 195 Mr. Alex Atamanenko: With respect to the pet food recall as a result of tainted ingredients causing illness and death among Canadian pets: (a) what is the government intending to do to ensure the safety of pet food made in Canada; (b) what is the government intending to do to ensure the safety of pet food imported from the United States and other countries; and (c) what are the details and the timeline of the government’s response to the outbreak from the time the government first learned about the pet food recall and the first illnesses were reported through the present time?

Functional foods, nutraceuticals and organic foods and products, plant-based cosmetics, toiletries, fabric, apparel, packaging, diapers, and medical supplies show enormous potential, as do pet food, pet toiletries, doggie diapers, pet care, and other animal wellness products.

This Regulation should therefore apply only to feedingstuffs for organically-reared livestock, excluding petfood, feed for fur animals and feed for aquaculture animals.

(2) The petfood market and the market in feed for fur animals are separate from the market in feedingstuffs for other farmed livestock.

Third countries export considerable quantities of animal by-products to the EU, either in the form of feed for farmed animals or pets (e.g. fishmeal, canned petfood) or as raw materials (e.g. tallow, bones, hides and skins) intended for the manufacture of such feed or for technical/industrial uses (production of cosmetics, medicinal products, medical devices, leather, glue, paint, plastic materials, etc).

Compound feedingstuffs, with the exception of feedingstuffs for fur animals, of feedingstuff for fish and of feedingstuffs for pet animals