Food inspection guidance: regulatory response
Find operational guidance for responding to risk and non-compliance. This includes food and commodity-specific guidance on control and enforcement actions taken during the response process.
Common regulatory response guidance
The following guidance is common to all regulatory response inspection tasks
- Standard regulatory response process
- New timelines and requirements for appeals coming before the Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal
Food regulatory response guidance
Control actions
- Procedure for seizure and detention, authorizing movement and disposition
- Ordering removal, or destruction of unlawful imports
- Assessing, monitoring and documenting the disposition of non-compliant food
Enforcement actions
- Development and implementation of management oversight bodies
- Issuing a letter of non-compliance
- Conducting a meeting with the regulated party
- Procedure for suspending and lifting the suspension of a Safe Food for Canadians licence
- Procedure for suspending and lifting the suspension of an authorization to conduct a post-mortem program
- Procedure for cancelling a Safe Food for Canadians licence
- Supplemental guidance for Safe Food for Canadians licence action decision makers
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