The CFIA says the quarantine zone covers a three-kilometre radius around the farm near St. Catharines and announced about 14,000 ducks at the commercial farm were destroyed because of the highly contagious H5N2 avian influenza.
In a statement released over this past weekend, the CFIA stated that a "humane depopulation of birds on the infected premise" had been completed and the bird flu hasn't been detected anywhere else in the quarantine zone.
Avian flu doesn't pose a risk to food safety when poultry products are properly handled and cooked and it rarely affects people that do not have consistent contact with infected birds.
A highly pathogenic subtype of the same virus caused outbreaks in Ontario and British Columbia last year. Canada had previously been free of notifiable avian influenza since last October.
The CFIA says the avian control zone is part of an "internationally accepted practice" so trade can continue in areas of the country that aren't infected.
Source: Meatbusinness