Regulations

The BC Chicken Marketing Board, through the Natural Products Marketing (BC) Act and the British Columbia Chicken Marketing Scheme, has the authority to regulate and monitor all activities related to the production and marketing of chicken within BC.  These regulations can be found in the BC Chicken Marketing Board General Orders.

BC Chicken Marketing Board General Orders
All chicken producers in BC are subject to the General Orders.  These outline the rules and regulations that a producer must follow.  These rules include items such as minimum barn requirements, production allotment, new entrant growers and new entrant processors.  Through the General Orders, the BC Chicken Marketing Board has made two additional programs mandatory for all BC producers – Safe, Safer, Safest and the BC Poultry Biosecurity Program.

Safe, Safer, Safest
Safe, Safer, Safest is a National program developed by Chicken Farmers of Canada, a leader in the area of food safety.  It is a comprehensive on-farm food safety assurance program that recommends the most modern methods and techniques for on-farm food safety, emphasizing health, cleanliness and safety through every step of the production cycle.

Safe, Safer, Safest is the standard for the food safety requirements for chicken production in Canada.  The program has been granted technical recognition by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for promoting the production of safe food at the farm level and adhering to the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles.

BC Poultry Biosecurity Program
The BC Poultry Biosecurity Program is an industry led initiative that encourages producers to follow biosecurity protocols that are based on scientifically sound principles that reduce the risk of disease introduction into a production unit, regardless of species.  The program was developed by the BC Poultry Association with the help of industry Veterinarians and the support of the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands.  The program recommendations have now become mandatory for all BC poultry producers; this includes broilers, layers, broiler breeders and turkeys.

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