The Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR) will come into force on January 15, 2019. To help businesses prepare for the new consolidated regulations, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will continue to publish new and updated guidance documents on a regular basis.
Here are some CFIA guidance documents available on CFIA’s website to assist you on the new requirements.
Guidance on Food-specific requirements
- Dairy products
- Egg and processed egg products
- Fish
- Fresh fruits or vegetables
- Honey
- Icewine
- Maple
- Meat products and food animals
- Processed fruit or vegetable products
More Information and Updates available:
Search by Importing from Specific Countries.
Recognition of foreign systems
New and updated information on CFIA SFCR webpage.
- On the Regulatory compliance landing page, now find: Standard Inspection Procedure (SIP) overview, Standard Permissions Procedure (SPP) overview, Standard Regulatory Response Process SRRP) overview.
- On the Meat products and food animal landing page, now find: Food animal identification
- On the Preventive control plan (PCP) landing page, now find: Preventive control plan (PCP) templates – for importers
- On the Food safety recalls and emergency response landing page, now find: Recall procedure: A guide for food businesses
- On the Toolkit for businesses landing page, find two additional questions and answers: Traceability to help clarify requirements for businesses who use cross-docking, as well as for different business models (for example franchises versus corporations).
Learn more about the Safe Food for Canadian Regulations (SFCR).
Any questions on the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations and the requirements submit online or contact 1-800-442-2342.
Visit CFIA Landing page on Livingston’s website provides new details with a 10-part series detailing the CFIA’s modernization initiative. New timelines, Fact sheets, Q&A, a handbook and Resourceful information. The coming into force implementation date is January 15, 2019.