In the past, an email would be sent to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) regulated clients when a CFIA import system was under maintenance or out of service. In an effort to continuously improve the line of communication between industry and the Agency, the CFIA will now also be posting maintenance and outage notices as an alert online.

When an import system is under maintenance or out of service, the following webpages will have a notice at the top of the page:

• National Import Service Centre
• Automated Shipment Inspection Status Search Tool  
• Automated Import Reference System
• Automated Import Reference System Verification Service

It is also worth noting that these webpages can now be accessed using the following vanity URLs:

www.inspection.gc.ca/nisc
www.inspection.gc.ca/asisst
www.inspectiongc.ca/airs
www.inspection.gc.ca/avs

The CFIA will continue to send updates as more content that supports importers is posted online. In the meantime, if you have suggestions for guidance on declaring CFIA regulated imports to the CBSA, please email ideas to: [email protected].