In 2023, Canada exported nearly 450 thousand metric tons of meat to the United States, including poultry, beef, veal, pork, goat, lamb, and mutton. While each of these is considered to be USDA eligible for import from Canada, the same...

In its recently published Forward Regulatory Plan: 2024 to 2026 CFIA is taking some positive steps to right some wrongs related to fish inspection fees and to restructure food compositional standards to be more responsive to technological advances and consumer demand....

With the Pathogen Reduction Monitoring Program (PRMP) for raw poultry launched by CFIA in March 2023, SFC licence holders who further process poultry carcasses and chicken parts are expected to now be implementing the program, with a similar staged approach...

As of the first of this month (April 1, 2024), CFIA’s Importer Risk Assessment model for food importers (IRA-Food) is now in effect. The model was developed to counter the sweeping increase of international food trade and the related increase...

On May 13, 2024, the Assessment and Revenue Management (CARM) becomes the official system of record for importers and other trade chain partners to pay duties and taxes. If you have not yet registered your business in the Canada Border Services...

If you import food to Canada and don’t have a valid SFC import license, your import will be automatically rejected! On February 12, the CFIA activated the automatic verification of SFC food import licenses, issuing a Food import notice to...

California’s “Proposition 12,” allowing only food from farm animals housed under specific standards to be sold in the state, went into full effect on January 1, 2024. While the regulation applies to sales in the state of California in the...

Although enforcement of the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR) took effect in January of 2019, some of the policies were not immediately enforced. One of these was the automatic verification of SFC licences for imports, which began in 2021...

What does CFIA consider to be a simulated meat or poultry product and how do the regulations differ and what requirements have been set for these products? It was just such industry questions that CFIA sought to answer in the...

Earlier this year, the Government of Canada published a regulatory framework paper on Recycled content and labelling rules for plastics. To reduce the environmental impact of food packaging, the framework outlines regulatory targets for recycled content for plastic packaging and...