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Question on frozen meat into Canada

Maurice45
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I had my butcher package steaks and chops and freeze them for me in Cryo bags. He did not label each package. I now find that the regulation on the official website reads that each package is supposed to be labeled with contents. Can anyone tell me whether they actually look that closely into your rig to check package labels?
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No wood, no seeded produce, questions answered in a straight forward manner, no inspection, no problem.

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free radical wrote:
Little Kopit wrote:
Wood, a couple of members have commented that they had wood and it was taken.

OF course, wood will always be taken. It always carries critters who can burrow into it.


In fact some states and provinces are taking steps to restrict the movement of wood from section of their territory to another part of their territory. One of our municipalities spent mega $ recently to cut down trees seen to have Dutch Elm disease. This transporting of cut wood is one of the ways such diseases get spread.

:C

I wonder just how effective these bans are,,after all bugs can fly
long distances anyways..


Not all bugs fly. And Not all bugs that burrow into wood to deposit larvae, live or eat fly. AND those that do fly can be territorial and live in a small geographic environment and those that don't often have short lifespans that preclude surviving a long trip. A few are wanderers and may get blown about by the wind and a few do migrate but I don't think those are the main concern.

I know it's hard for some to beleive but the Biologists and Entomologists actually know what they are doing when they make these kinds of rules.

free_radical
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Little Kopit wrote:
Wood, a couple of members have commented that they had wood and it was taken.

OF course, wood will always be taken. It always carries critters who can burrow into it.


In fact some states and provinces are taking steps to restrict the movement of wood from section of their territory to another part of their territory. One of our municipalities spent mega $ recently to cut down trees seen to have Dutch Elm disease. This transporting of cut wood is one of the ways such diseases get spread.

:C

I wonder just how effective these bans are,,after all bugs can fly
long distances anyways..

free_radical
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bbaker2001 wrote:
we had gone up to port Angeles to cross over on the ferry. they took all the firewood.
we came back into Washington via British Columbia. when stopped at border they had us get out of truck, and they went through everything.
we had purchased steaks and hamburger at a local store. they took it all

You know the border guards need to eat too!!:)

MR_MAC
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We took frozen meat (nice steaks) in separate plastic bags into Can. with no problem, But they took them from us coming back to US. (Holton Maine) They said if it was in the orig. store package with label it would have been OK.
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bbaker2001
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should have said it was 5 yre ago we went
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Little_Kopit
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Wood, a couple of members have commented that they had wood and it was taken.

OF course, wood will always be taken. It always carries critters who can burrow into it.


In fact some states and provinces are taking steps to restrict the movement of wood from section of their territory to another part of their territory. One of our municipalities spent mega $ recently to cut down trees seen to have Dutch Elm disease. This transporting of cut wood is one of the ways such diseases get spread.

:C
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sljohnson1938
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depends on what they want to eat that nite. wife says 'need hamburger ', then that is it.
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I'm really surprised they would take beef because poultry from Ontario is the only restriction now. There hasn't been beef issues for about 3 years going into the US.

.., Eric

bbaker2001
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we had gone up to port Angeles to cross over on the ferry. they took all the firewood.
we came back into Washington via British Columbia. when stopped at border they had us get out of truck, and they went through everything.
we had purchased steaks and hamburger at a local store. they took it all
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4X4Dodger
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I just came thru Canadian customs about 4 days ago. when the Canadian Customs agent asked me if we had any food with us I was honest and specific...this helps...and I told him we had some frozen meat and a few fresh vegetables all bought at Wal Mart in Bellingham...Knowing this and telling this seems to help. He said no worries on any of that he just wanted to know if we had any kind of fruit with a PIT in it.

Nope.

Oh By the way I said I have my Dog in the back of the pickup (who had been uncharacteristically quiet this whole time...

He asked if he had his vaccinations? YEP

Have a nice trip...

But I agree with bringing the meat. Meat in British Columbia is VERY expensive...and that is taking into account the currency difference in the Dollars.

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bbaker2001 wrote:
they only took our wood, but coming back into USA they took all our meat

Where (which crossing) and when did the US agents take the meat? What kind of meat was it?

.. Eric

bbaker2001
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they only took our wood, but coming back into USA they took all our meat
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pigman1
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schlep1967 wrote:
You could always take a sharpie and label the meat. Beef Tips - 4/1/2016
Exactly. We vacuum pack venison, fish, pork, beef and lamb that are home raised, caught or hunted and mark with date, species, and cut (if we can't readily identify) such as "Pork Chops-Center cut-xx/xx/xxxx or Ground black bear-xx/xx/xxxx". We mark packages with a Sharpie. Never had a problem or question.

When we're traveling through Canada to or from Alaska we don't want to take the time to stop and shop. I'm traveling through, not staying any longer than that takes. Besides, the reason I have my own meat and fish with me is that I know the quality and source of such meat and fish.

A lot of these "confiscations" is based on the politics of the moment, and the border clowns then look at the published rules to see how they can then justify it. Remember the egg thing in 2015? US customs confiscated 3 eggs from us as we entered Alaska from Canada. We had receipts and package markings that proved the eggs were bought in DELAWARE at Walmart.
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