24^th International Conference on Food and Nutrition December 07-08, 2020 Vancouver, Canada

Track 1: Food Safety & Quality Management Strategies and Technologies
Quality management implementation it is a management technique to assure, to control and to monitor the product quality in order to ensure that the end product was manufactured with high quality the development of food safety is mandatory while quality assurance is voluntary. It is not the same to implement food safety such as: GMP, SSOP, HACCP and/or others, that assures the consumption of food is safe, than to implement quality assurance.

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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Track 2: Global Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Food Industry
This pandemic is slowing the global economy to a crawl but many of the largest economies are taking extra-ordinary measures to propel the crisis into rapid recovery. This considerable disaster shaking not only the world's economy but also the world's politics too which impacts throttling to the global economy and in a week or a couple of months the highly contagious disease has pushed the world to the brink of recession.
As per Food Safety Specialist, Food and Agricultural Products Center, Ravi Jadeja in OSU marked his word as, "The risk associated with Novel COVID-19 in the food industry is low due to the regulatory and third-party audit Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) requirements that specifically address the exclusion of persons with any infectious diseases from the food-processing environment”.

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Related Societies on Food Security:

National Frozen Food Association, USA; Institute of Food Technologists, UK; International Association of Food Industry Suppliers, USA; International Bottled Water Association, USA; Asian Food Safety and Security Association, Japan; Food Industry Students European Council,  Netherland. 

Track 3: Food Security, Poverty and Sustainability
In an era of scarcity it is becoming increasingly important to address production and consumption jointly because of the linkages between the two. The transition to a more sustainable  through a systemic approach founded on a better understanding of socio-ecological systems. So far the focus of research and policy has been on the supply-side by providing technological innovations, however social innovations in the domain of ones. It is equally important to address demand-side issues, and to reduce the present unsustainable levels of consumption. Therefore, research on behavioral or structural changes in food systems. 

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Related Societies on Food Security:

National Frozen Food Association, USA; Institute of Food Technologists, UK; International Association of Food Industry Suppliers, USA; International Bottled Water Association, USA; Asian Food Safety and Security Association, Japan; Food Industry Students European Council,  Netherland. 

Track 4: Utilization: Nutritional Value, Social Value and Safety of Food
Nourishment use is regularly just interpreted as meaning the physiological dietary benefit of nourishment. While consumes less calories should be healthfully adjusted and adequate in amount, nourishments likewise should be protected: free from poisons and different contaminants, and from pathogens and parasites. While numerous ultra-prepared nourishments fulfill these conditions, abundance utilization of such 'void calories' can likewise be named 'perilous', contributing as it does to overweight and stoutness, and attendant eating regimen related maladies. Nourishment utilization ought to be adequate in assortment, quality and amount to maintain a strategic distance from poor physical and psychological wellness results related with hunger, hindering, squandering and corpulence. At long last, the social elements of nourishment are frequently ignored in nourishment security discusses. These are regularly profoundly inserted in social standards, and add to thoughts of social-and self-personality, connection and family. Nourishment regularly serves genuine or emblematic capacity in strict or social service; absence of the correct kinds of nourishment for such capacities undermines the social capacity. In what capacity should exchange offs between healthy benefit, social worth and sanitation be assessed and tended to? How do these three components interface with different elements of nourishment security and effect the attractive changes of nourishment frameworks.

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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Track 5: Affordability, Allocation and Preference of Food
As halfway noted in the definition coming from the 1996 FAO World Food Summit, nourishment security is in a general sense an issue of access to nourishment. For most, nourishment moderateness is then a key component, incorporating the cost of nourishment with the measure of discretionary cashflow to spend on it. On the off chance that costs rise quicker than earnings, nourishment instability can increment. So also, physical access might be troublesome in certain spots. Distribution in the public arena is a further issue and can take a scope of structures because of fluctuated reasons. For example, in certain societies, men eat before ladies; help offices and crisis alleviation associations need to choose needs for who gets nourishment and when; and nourishment can be utilized as a political 'weapon' to impact or even oppress segments of society. Inclination is the third significant component of Access. Inclinations can be dictated by social and strict settings, taste and appearance, comfort and cooking ability, wellbeing and moral concerns, and furthermore showcasing and retail methodologies. Albeit safe and healthfully agreeable, eating nourishment we don't lean toward can have mental effect, undermining in general prosperity. What exactly degree should inclination consider in nourishment security discusses? How does get to meddle with other nourishment security measurements to understand the SDGs.


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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Track 6: Food Waste Management, Public Health And Food Safety
Food waste or nourishment misfortune is nourishment that is disposed of or lost uneaten. The reasons for nourishment waste or misfortune are various and happen at the phases of creating, handling, retailing and devouring. Worldwide nourishment misfortune and waste add up to between 33% and one-portion of all sustenance delivered. Misfortune and wastage happen at all phases of the sustenance store network or esteem chain. In low-wage nations, most misfortune happens amid generation, while in created nations much nourishment – around 100 kilograms for every individual every year – is squandered at the utilization arrange.

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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.
 

Track 7: Chemical Composition of Food And chemical Additives of Food
The diverse types of emulsifier lecithin – powder, two distinctive fixation fluids, granular and powder lecithin. Nourishment added substances will be substances added to sustenance to protect flavor or improve its taste, appearance, or different characteristics. A few added substances have been utilized for a considerable length of time; for instance, saving nourishment by pickling (with vinegar), salting, likewise with bacon, protecting desserts or utilizing sulfur dioxide similarly as with wines. With the coming of prepared nourishments in the second 50% of the twentieth century, numerous more added substances have been presented, of both characteristic and fake cause. Sustenance added substances likewise incorporate substances that might be acquainted with nourishment in a roundabout way (called "aberrant added substances") in the assembling procedure, through bundling, or amid capacity or transport.


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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Track 8: The Social Dynamics of Food Security
Attiring global food security and restoring demands on the environment is the greatest challenge faced by mankind. By the time 2050 at least nine Billion people need food, and increasing incomes and urbanization will inevitably lead to dietary revamp. The food security competitiveness will increasingly fringe the triple burden of malnutrition– under nutrition, obesity and deficiencies in micronutrient. The importance of the food security issues has led to huge scientific strides which forwards and making it difficult to keep up with the rapidly expanding value of scientific research and technology. Policies to implement global and local food security  needs to be actualize  and decision makers should have to make difficult choices to ameliorate the food security of local people against the limelight of drastic global changes. For some, feeding the world ethically means ensuring universal access to what is needed nutritionally for human survival and mitigating hunger. For others, it is securing food of sufficient quantity and quality for a decent life, a healthy life, or even a high quality of life. Still others widen the lens to include the welfare and rights of agricultural workers and farmers, the environment, or the well-being of nonhuman animals. And still others focus on protecting choice in the marketplace or on respecting cultural and national traditions and ways of life. The challenge for ethically acceptable global food security is to find a path forward, where tangible progress on ethical issues and disagreements in global food policy and practice is possible even in the absence of consensus about relevant values and permissible means.

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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Track 9: Food Fraud
Food fraud is the act of purposely altering, misrepresenting, mislabeling, substituting or tampering with any food product at any point along the farm–to–table food supply–chain. Fraud can occur in the raw material, in an ingredient, in the final product or in the food’s packaging.

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Related Societies on Food Security:

National Frozen Food Association, USA; Institute of Food Technologists, UK; International Association of Food Industry Suppliers, USA; International Bottled Water Association, USA; Asian Food Safety and Security Association, Japan; Food Industry Students European Council,  Netherland. 

Track 10: COVID-19 and Food Safety
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic presents an exceptional and unprecedented challenge for competent authoritiesa with responsibilities for national food safety control systems b to continue conducting routine functions and activities in accordance with national regulations and international recommendations. In many countries, competent authority staff are largely working from home, teleworking being the normal practice, and all face-to-face meetings cancelled or rescheduled as teleconferences. It is challenging to maintain, without interruption, routine activities such as the inspection of food business operations, certifying exports, control of imported foods, monitoring and surveillance of the safety of the food supply chain, sampling and analysis of food, managing food incidents, providing advice on food safety and food regulations for the food industry, and communicating on food safety issues with the public.

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Related Societies on Food Security:

National Frozen Food Association, USA; Institute of Food Technologists, UK; International Association of Food Industry Suppliers, USA; International Bottled Water Association, USA; Asian Food Safety and Security Association, Japan; Food Industry Students European Council,  Netherland. 

Track 11: Biosensors and Food Safety
Biosensor is an analytical device that converts the biological reaction into electrical signals with the help of a transducer and generates real time Data. It is used detect analyte that interacts with the biological element associated with the transducer that gives out a measurable signal proportional to target analyte. The biological membranes can vary form microbes, cell organelles to nucleic acid. Transducer can be optical, electrochemical depending on the type of interaction with analyte.
Food safety requires fast effective real time methods to take the edge of adulteration, neurotoxins, pathogens, harmful chemicals, heavy metals etc. that affects humans, plants and animals. Biosensors in food safety can be a cost effective and time saving approach towards maintaining the international stands in food industries.
 

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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Track 12: Quality control & Management
Quality is a measure of the level of magnificence or level of worthiness by the buyer. Nourishment quality is the arrangement of buyer prerequisites, for example, security, item, dietary and tangible. This incorporates outside elements, for example, measure, shape, shading, consistency, flavor and surface.
Sustenance quality is an essential nourishment producing necessity, since sustenance shoppers are vulnerable to any sort of sullying that may happen amid assembling process. Ensure that the sustenance preparing condition is spotless keeping in mind the end goal to deliver the most secure conceivable nourishment for the purchaser. The essential parts of sustenance quality are: nourishment wellbeing, tangible attributes and wholesome esteem. Nutritive esteem is one of the essential qualities, which is presently considered by the purchasers as a quality characteristic. Wellbeing of sustenance is a fundamental necessity of nourishment quality.

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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Track 13: Food Safety Certifications
Facilities which prepare, handle or serve open hypothetically hazardous food should have an owner or employee who has been successfully completed an approved and accredited with food safety certification examination.

Foodservice business which serves "high risk" populations will be the first part of the industry required to fulfill with the new guidelines. At least one individual from each foodservice establishment should be certified in food safety techniques.

The original certificate is required to be maintained on site at the facility. It is the duty of the certified food supervisor to ensure that all employees have sufficient knowledge and are well trained in food safety as it recounts to their assigned duties which are framed by FDA (Food and drug administration).

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Related Societies on Food Security:

National Frozen Food Association, USA; Institute of Food Technologists, UK; International Association of Food Industry Suppliers, USA; International Bottled Water Association, USA; Asian Food Safety and Security Association, Japan; Food Industry Students European Council,  Netherland. 

Track 14: Food safety Laws & Regulations
Food Safety Regulations. Modern day food safety regulations were developed on sound scientific principles to protect consumers from incidents of foodborne illness and death. ... With globalization, the supply chain must be carefully monitored to ensure imports meet food safety regulations and are free from tampering.

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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Track 15: PCR and Food Industry
The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique was invented by kary B. Mullis in 1985, which helped scientist in making millions of copies of DNA, Which later had a wide spread usage in the many disciplines of life sciences from diagnostics of genetic disorders to identification of HIV in Human cells. There is increase in demand for a real time technique in Food Industry for quality assurance of food, which can bypass microbial method as they consume more time. In this case PCR is playing a key role in detection of pathogens in food and minimizing the affect food borne illness.PCR based methods in Food Microbiology led to the development of faster, much sensitive and more specific protocols. 
 

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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Track 16: Food Safety & Quality Management Strategies and Technologies
Quality management implementation it is a management technique to assure, to control and to monitor the product quality in order to ensure that the end product was manufactured with high quality the development of food safety is mandatory while quality assurance is voluntary. It is not the same to implement food safety such as: GMP, SSOP, HACCP and/or others, that assures the consumption of food is safe, than to implement quality assurance.
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Related Societies on Food Security:

AsianFood Safety and Security Association,Japan; Food Industry Students European Council, Netherland. European Food Information Resource, Belgium; European Food Safety Authority, Italy; Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Italy; Center for Food Safety United States; Food & Water Watch USA; Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA; Australian International Food Security Centre  Australia.

Market Analysis Report:

The 24^th International Conference on Food Fraud & Safety to be held at Vancouver, Canada during December 07-08, 2020 hosted by Conference Series LLC Ltd through the theme "Our Food is Our Future", conference will explore the advances in Food Science, Safety, and Public Health etc. It will be a premier event that brings together a unique and International mix of experts, researchers and decision makers both from academia and industry across the globe to exchange their knowledge, experience and research innovations to build a world Food Scientist & Nutritionist meet.

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 Research and Business Value:

1. Globally:

The worldwide nourishment security testing industry is developing at 3.5% a year and is relied upon to be worth 16.1 Billion USD by 2020.

Worldwide Nourishment Security Testing Business sector Conjecture till 2018 By Contaminants - Standpoint to 2018

1-Pesticides Testing

2-Pathogen Testing

3-GMO Testing

4-Poison Testing

There is a demand for more safe systems of obtaining, producing, distribution and consumption of food, which requires more regulation and infrastructure at all levels of Food supply chains. It’s very important to determine how the growth of Populations and changing lifestyles has brought great demand for more safe food, with new and fast-spreading foodborne illnesses globally. There is an importance of developing all safe food procedures transparent for the consumers.

“Keep Food Safe- Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder is our prime quote and goal of our conference

In Europe, sustenance wellbeing strategy has been underscored by the contributed endeavors from Control Laboratories (CLs), National Reference Laboratories (NRLs), and EU Reference Laboratories (EURLs). These experts have a fundamental point of securing buyer wellbeing by guaranteeing the nature of the sustenance production network. Nourishment wellbeing strategies coordinated in Europe take after the procedure of "from ranch to fork." The European market is a develop showcase and has a few administrative bodies to direct stringently the utilization of sustenance flavors and enhancers, consequently dealing with the customers of the countries. Germany constitutes the real offer having 24% taken after by the UK (23%), Spain (10%), Netherland (5%) and Italy (9%). $ 823 million US dollar is the market measured by estimation of the manufactured flavor and $ 755.65 million US dollar is the market estimate by estimation of the common in the year 2014.

2. North-America Region:

This exploration report incorporates the North American market for nourishment security testing utilized as a part of meat and poultry, dairy, handled sustenance, and organic products and vegetables. The North American market for sustenance wellbeing testing is anticipated to achieve USD 6.4 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 7.4% from 2015. North America is considered to have a standout amongst the most developed nourishment security programs that have been vivaciously executed over the locale. The sustenance wellbeing testing market in this area is very aggressive and the current market players are associated with the innovative work of innovation and administration to coming new nourishment security testing arrangements. The market is exceedingly unique and inclined to vacillation in cost, time, and testing arrangements. Indicative organizations in North America are likewise engaged with the advancement of innovations that can distinguish the nearness of the considerable number of contaminants in a single test.

3. Asia pacific:

 Asia-Pacific is probably going to be the quickest developing district with a gauge CAGR of 4% more than 2012-2017, because of the rising interest for sustenance security from customers, makers, and controllers. The most fast moving nation in Asia-Pacific is China, and this will be enhanced by the bigger client base. Australia has additionally been influenced seriously by pathogen incited foodborne sicknesses and has organized sustenance wellbeing testing. A few billion Euros were spent by European medicinal services framework as a result of ailments caused by contaminants.

Market structure:-

The UK sustenance industry has demonstrated versatility amid the monetary downturn, with the agro-nourishment division contributing £96.1 billion a year to the UK economy. And keep in mind that the aggregate estimation of UK sustenance and drink trades fell somewhat in 2012 to £18.2 billion, this was still £5.6 billion more than in 2005. The business additionally has aggressive plans to grow 20% by 2020. Quick innovations, particularly fast discovery packs, are utilized for sustenance security testing in handled nourishments. Overall distinctive directions have been set for prepared to-eat (RTE) items security testing. Handled nourishment items incorporate solidified items, snacks, bundled items, and so forth. Listeria and different pathogens, for example, Clostridium might be found in last RTE items. The worldwide sustenance security testing has been ruled by meat and poultry items attributable to the way that most extreme number of diseases has been because of meat and poultry items. The Asia-Pacific market is required to become because of the expansion in agribusiness deliver exchange supply. This is on the grounds that the sent out and imported items must be sheltered and guaranteed in like manner, in light of the sustenance security controls of that specific area. Nourishment Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS) set up another run to forestall defilement of meat and poultry items in butcher houses and preparing plants in light of HACCP sustenance security control framework. The expanded utilization of prepared sustenance, both in creating and created nations, is making a noteworthy open door for handled nourishment testing. Likewise, the defilement of the vast majority of the prepared nourishment happens from the handling apparatuses. Wasteful store network and sustenance tainting episodes are powering the development of the market.

Conclusion:-

In many countries, including some of the more populous ones, the relative prevalence of undernourishment will decline significantly with this approach. Fewer countries than at present will have high levels of undernourishment, none of them in the most populous class. The problem of undernourishment will tend to become lesser in terms of both absolute numbers affected and, even more, in relative terms, hence it will become more tractable through policy interventions, both national and international. Now that you have all the information you need on eating healthy, the most important action step you can do is to maintain this lifestyle choice as much as possible. Post intents when you need motivation from others. Keep a diary of your food choices on your blog or journal. Talk to other people when you are feeling tempted to indulge in unhealthy desserts

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Find out what you need to visit Canada as a tourist or business person, how to extend your stay in Canada and what documents you need to carry with you to transit through Canada.

Application submission:

Canada does not have a visa office in every country so it is important that Delegates/Attendees visit the website of the visa office responsible for processing their visa applications.  Information is available on the website on how to submit a visa application and the documentation required. 

Delegates/Attendees are encouraged to submit their visa applications well in advance of the date of the event at a Visa Application Centre or on-line E-applications (e-Apps).

E-Apps

This system allows clients to submit applications online.

Delegates/Attendees that need a visa but require their passport for other travel purposes are strongly encouraged to submit their visa applications on-line (e-Apps).  Delegates/Attendees that choose to apply on-line will not have to submit their passport until a decision has been taken on their applications.  If required, the visa office will send the applicant instructions on how and where to send their passports to finalize the visa process.  

Visa Application Centres (VACs):

VACs are commercial service providers authorized by Canada to provide specific services to applicants. 

VACs provide a number of services including help applicants fill out forms, answer questions and ensure that applications are complete, thereby reducing unnecessary delays or refusals due to incomplete applications.

Applicants that are required to provide biometrics information as part of the visa application process can do so at a VAC.  Additional information on the biometrics requirements is available at the IRCC website.

VACs send applications to Visa Offices and transmit decisions to applicants in a secure and confidential manner. VACs do not process visa applications and play no role in the decision-making process.

Visa Applications Processing Time:

Processing time for visa applications vary depending on the office and the time of the year.  Participants should be encouraged to apply early for their visas, and to submit complete applications including all supporting documents.  

Please visit the IRCC website for information on the time it takes to process visa applications at the various visa offices. 

NEW - Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA)

As of March 15, 2016, visa-exempt foreign nationals are expected to have an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) to fly to or transit through Canada. Exceptions include U.S. citizens, and travellers with a valid Canadian visa. Canadian citizens, including dual citizens and Canadian permanent residents are not eligible to apply for an eTA.

However, from March 15, 2016 until fall 2016, travellers who do not have an eTA can board their flight, as long as they have appropriate travel documents, such as a valid passport. During this time, border services officers can let travellers arriving without an eTA into the country, as long as they meet the other requirements to enter Canada. We invite you to consult the IRCC website regularly for information updates on eTA.