16 February 2004

CFIA Outage

The following message is from the Electronic Commerce Unit of the CBSA.

On February 19, 2004 at 8:00 pm (Ottawa time), there will be an interruption to the CFIA network for 2 hours to do emergency network maintenance. This interruption will affect all CFIA/AAFC applications, and connectivity between other CFIA locations in NCR and across Canada.

Please be advised that for CFIA shipments, members can revert to paper during this time, otherwise there will be a 2 hour delay in your EDI transactions. For any questions please call your local Import Service Centre:

Eastern 877-493-0468

Central 800-835-4486

Western 888-732-6222