Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Content of preventive control plan

• 89 (1) The preventive control plan must include

  • (a) a description of the measures for ensuring that the applicable requirements of sections 201 and 205, subsection 206(1), sections 208, 218, 221, 296, 306, 307, 316, 317, 321, 322, 324 to 326 and 328 are met;

  • (b) a description of the measures for ensuring that the food is packaged and labelled in a manner that does not contravene subsection 6(1) of the Act;

  • (c) in relation to the applicable requirements of these Regulations,

    • (i) a description of the biological, chemical and physical hazards that are identified under subsection 47(1) as presenting a risk of contamination of a food, of the control measures for preventing or eliminating those hazards or reducing them to an acceptable level and of the evidence that the control measures are effective,

    • (ii) a description of the critical control points, of the related control measures and of the evidence that the control measures are effective,

    • (iii) a description of the critical limits for each critical control point,

    • (iv) the procedures for monitoring the critical control points in relation to their critical limits,

    • (v) the corrective action procedures for each critical control point,

    • (vi) the procedures for verifying that the implementation of the preventive control plan results in compliance with the provisions of the Act and these Regulations, and

    • (vii) documents that substantiate that the preventive control plan has been implemented with respect to subparagraphs (i) to (vi); and

  • (d) in relation to the applicable requirements of sections 128 to 136, paragraphs 140(b) and (c) and sections 141 to 144,

    • (i) a description of the measures for preventing or eliminating a risk of avoidable suffering, injury or death to the food animals during their handling, and of the evidence that those measures are effective,

    • (ii) a description of the measures for preventing or eliminating a risk of avoidable suffering or injury to the food animals during their slaughtering, and of the evidence that those measures are effective,

    • (iii) a description of the performance criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of each of those measures,

    • (iv) the procedures for monitoring each of those measures,

    • (v) the corrective action procedures for each of those measures,

    • (vi) the procedures for verifying that the implementation of the preventive control plan results in compliance with the provisions of the Act and these Regulations,

    • (vii) the procedures for auditing, on a regular basis, the outcome of the implementation of the preventive control plan, and

    • (viii) documents that substantiate that the preventive control plan has been implemented with respect to subparagraphs (i) to (vii); and

  • (e) supporting documents that show evidence of the information recorded under paragraphs (a) and (b), subparagraphs (c)(i) to (vi) and (d)(i) to (vii).

• Marginal note:Retention period of documents

  (2) Each document referred to in subparagraphs (1)(c)(vii) and (d)(viii) must be kept for two years after the day on which it is prepared.

• Marginal note:Exception — game animals

  (3) The preventive control plan of the holder of a licence to slaughter a game animal is not required to include any information specified in subsection (1) other than the information specified in subparagraphs (1)(c)(i) and (d)(i).

• Marginal note:Additional content — import

  (4) The preventive control plan of the holder of a licence to import must also include the information specified in subparagraphs (1)(c)(i) to (vii) in relation to the requirements of section 11.

• Marginal note:Additional content — export

  (5) The preventive control plan of the holder of a licence to export must also include the information specified in subparagraphs (1)(c)(i) to (vii) in relation to the requirements of subsection 15(1).

• Marginal note:Additional content — post-mortem programs

  (6) The preventive control plan of a licence holder who is authorized under subsection 160(3) to conduct a post-mortem examination program or a post-mortem defect management program must also include the information specified in subparagraphs (1)(c)(i) to (vii) and paragraph (1)(e) in relation to that program and must meet the requirements that are set out in

  • (a) in the case of a post-mortem examination, the document entitled Fundamentals of the Post-mortem Examination Program, prepared by the Agency and published on its website, as amended from time to time; or

  • (b) in the case of a post-mortem defect management program, the document entitled Fundamentals of the Post-mortem Defect Management Program, prepared by the Agency and published on its website, as amended from time to time.