Food Safety Links

• Safe Food for Canadians Regulations
  • Timelines for Fresh Fruits or Vegetables Sector
  • Preventive food safety controls (SFCR)
  • Preventive Controls and Preventive Control Plan (PCP)
  • Licensing
  • Traceability
  • CFIA Traceability Requirements
  • Definition of Lot Code
  • Following Canada’s food regulations (videos) (video)
  • Requesting a Safe Food for Canadians Regulations Licence (video)
  • CanadaGAP Alignment with the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (read-only Powerpoint presentation)
• Alberta Department of Agriculture and Irrigation
  • Food Safety
  • Food safety resources for producers and processors
• B.C. Agriculture and Seafood Food Safety
• B.C. Good Agricultural Practices Guidelines: Risk assessment for natural disaster flood events
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Food Safety
• CFIA –  Food Safety Testing Reports and Journal Articles
• CFIA’s Food Safety Recognition Program (including questions and answers and a video)
• CFIA’s Food Safety Recognition Program Brochure
• CFIA: Notice to importers and domestic producers: Review your food safety controls for raw enoki mushrooms
• Health Canada: Prioritization of Microbial Research Needs for Fresh Produce in Canada
• Health Canada Policy on Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods
• Health Canada: Pesticide Compliance Program – Use of pesticides in agriculture: Information from Health Canada
• Health Canada: Pesticides compliance and enforcement: Resources
• Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development: Food Safety
• Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation – Sécurité des aliments (en français seulement)
• Ontario (OMAFA): Foods of plant origin
• Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA)
  • Pesticide label online search and mobile app
  • Understanding preharvest intervals for pesticides
  • Understanding restricted entry intervals for pesticides
  • Glove use with pesticides

• University of Arizona Training Video – Cleaning Harvest Equipment prior to Sanitizing
• University of California – Commodity-Specific Food Safety Information
• Arizona Leafy Green Marketing Association: Food Safety Resources
• Center for Disease Control (CDC) – Food Safety
• Center for Produce Safety
• Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Alliance: Member Resources
• Cornell University National GAPs program
• FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
• Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement
• Lettuce and Leafy Greens Food Safety Guidelines – Current Edition
• Melon Supply Chain Guidance – Current Edition
• National Cantaloupe and Netted Melons Guidance
• The National Onion Association and the International Fresh Produce Association’s Commodity Specific Food Safety Guidelines for the Dry Bulb Onion Supply Chain
• Tomato Supply Chain Guidance – Current Edition
• U.S. Food Safety Gateway
• USDA Food Safety Information Page
• International Fresh Produce Association – Food Safety Resources
• Western Growers Family of Companies – Conducting Root Cause Analysis A “How-To” Guide for the Produce Industry

• FSVP Final Rule
  • Guidance document (Guidance for Industry: Foreign Supplier Verification Programs for Importers of Food for Humans and Animals | FDA).
  • Comprehensive FDA page about final rule (FSMA Final Rule on Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP) for Importers of Food for Humans and Animals | FDA).
• Produce Safety Rule
  • Comprehensive FDA page about final rule (FSMA Final Rule on Produce Safety | FDA).
  • Produce & Plant Products Guidance Documents & Regulatory Information
  • Does the Produce Safety Rule apply to my operation?
• FSMA Final Rule on Pre-Harvest Agricultural Water:
  • FAQ for final rule (Frequently Asked Questions: Agricultural Water Requirements under the FSMA Produce Safety Rule | FDA).
• Preventive Control Final Rule
  • Guidance document (Draft Guidance for Industry: Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food | FDA).
• FSMA Final Rule on Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods | FDA
  • Frequently Asked Questions: FSMA Food Traceability Rule | FDA
• External sources:
  • Canadian Food Inspection Agency –Food Export Notices
  • Regulatory Alert for U.S. Importers

• • Codex Alimentarius – World Food Safety Day
  • Partnership for Food Education – World Food Safety Day
  • Fresh Produce Safety Centre – Publications and Resources
    • Quick guides for Fresh Produce Food Safety
    • Food Safety Essentials (guidance on drought, fire and flood)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – International and national regulatory strategies to counter food fraud

International Organizations

• Codex Alimentarius
• Global Food Safety Initiative

• Canadian Herb Speciality Agriculture and Natural Health Products (CHSNC) Coalition Good Agriculture and Collection Practices (GACP)
• Food Marketing Institute: SafeMark
• FreshCare (Australia)
• NZ GAP  (New Zealand)
• South Africa: Perishable Products Export Control Board (PPECB) Primary Production and On-Farm Produce Handling
• UK Assured Produce Standards