§ 51

(1) An establishment must be protected against the entry of any animal that presents a risk of contamination of a food, except if, in the case of any land that forms part of an establishment, there are no reasonably practicable measures that may be taken to prevent the entry of such animals onto the land.

(2) An animal must not be in a facility or conveyance where a food is manufactured, prepared, stored, packaged or labelled or where a food animal is slaughtered, unless the animal is (a) a food that is intended to be manufactured, prepared, stored, packaged or labelled in the facility or conveyance; (b) a food animal that is intended to be slaughtered in the facility or conveyance, whether or not the meat products that may be derived from it are intended to be exported or to be sent or conveyed from one province to another; or (c) an animal that is intended to be used in the manufacturing or preparing of a food in the facility or conveyance.

(3) Any measures that are taken for the purposes of complying with subsections (1) and (2) must not present a risk of contamination of a food.