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The main focus of the SFCA is to:
The main focus of the SFCA is to:
- Strengthen food traceability
- Improve import controls
- Strengthens Canada's food safety system to make food safer for consumers
SFCA Prohibits:
SFCA Prohibits:
- For a person to manufacture, prepare, package, label, sell, import or advertise a food commodity in a manner that is false, misleading or deceptive or is likely to create an erroneous impression regarding its character, quality, value, quantity, composition, merit, safety or origin or the method of its manufacture or preparation.
- For a person to send or convey from one province to another — or to import or export — a prescribed food commodity unless the food commodity meets the requirements of the regulations
- For a person to render or threaten to render a food commodity injurious to human health.
This goal is to:
This goal is to:
- make food as safe as possible for Canadian families;
- protect consumers by targeting unsafe practices;
- implement tougher penalties for activities that put health and safety at risk;
- provide a better control over imports;
- institute a more consistent inspection regime across all food commodities; and
- strengthen food traceability.
(Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 2017)
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