What Canada Safe Food for Canadians Act: Licensing, Traceability and Food Commodity Controls requires
The Safe Food for Canadians Act (S.C. 2012, c. 24) is Canada's consolidated federal food-safety statute, administered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), governing the import, export and inter-provincial trade of food commodities. Section 2 defines 'food commodity' (any food as defined in the Food and Drugs Act, or any animal or plant from which food may be derived), 'licence' and 'prescribed'; section 3 makes the Act binding on the Crown. Core prohibitions bar manufacturing, preparing, packaging, labelling, selling, importing or advertising a food commodity in a manner that is false, misleading or deceptive (section 6(1)); tampering with a food commodity, its label or package with intent to render it injurious to human health (section 7); and selling a food commodity subject to a recall order under subsection 19(1) of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act (section 5). A prescribed food commodity may not be sent or conveyed from one province to another, imported or exported, without the required registration or licence (section 10(2)), and may not be possessed for those purposes unless it meets the regulations (section 12). The Minister may register a person or issue a non-transferable licence authorising inter-provincial trade, import or export (section 20). It is prohibited to make false or misleading statements to officials (section 15) or to obstruct them (section 16). Inspectors may enter regulated places to examine, test, sample, use computers and remove things (section 24), seize and detain (section 25), subject to a consent or warrant requirement for dwelling-houses (section 26); they may order non-compliant or illegally imported food removed from Canada or destroyed, with forfeiture to the Crown on default (section 32). Offences are punishable under section 39(1) on indictment by a fine up to $5,000,000 or two years' imprisonment, and on summary conviction by up to $250,000 or six months (first offence) or $500,000 or 18 months (subsequent), with higher penalties for tampering and reckless endangerment under section 39(3) (on indictment, a fine at the court's discretion or up to five years). The Governor in Council may make regulations, including traceability requirements (section 51).
Pillar: Agriculture & Agritech · Authority: Parliament of Canada / Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/S-1.1/FullText.html
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- Safe Food for Canadians Act, S.C. 2012, c. 24, Section 2 - definitions of food commodity, licence and prescribed; Section 3 - binding on the Crown.
- Safe Food for Canadians Act, Section 5 - prohibition on selling a food commodity subject to a recall order under subsection 19(1) of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Act.
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