Lead Department: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Start Date of the Horizontal Initiative: April 1, 2003
End
Date of the Horizontal Initiative: March 31, 2008
Total
Federal Funding Allocation: $27M over 5 years
Description
To establish minimum standards, as well as inspection and enforcement
strategies for manufacturers of medicated feed for food-producing animals. Also
to establish the On-Farm Food Safety Recognition Program, which will provide
government recognition of HACCP-based food safety systems developed and
implemented by national producer associations.
Specific activities under the medicated feeds initiative will:
- promulgate and implement medicated feed regulations establishing minimum
standards for manufacturers of medicated feed for food producing animals;
and
- establish standards and policies supporting the design and implementation
of an inspection and licensing system for these feed mills and farms by
evaluating their manufacturing procedures and records.
Specific activities under the on-farm food safety recognition initiative
will: establish a recognition system for on-farm food safety programs, which
will ensure that adequate government oversight mechanisms are in place to
maintain the confidence of Canada's trading partners and facilitate open
access to marketplace.
Shared Outcome(s)
- protect human health by reducing exposure to hazards; and
- increase consumer confidence in the safety and quality of food produced in
Canada [MOU, section 1.2].
Governance Structures
The MOU Governance Model includes three levels:
- the Joint Management Committee (JMC) which approves costed work
plans with milestones, targets and indicators; reviews expenditures; and
reports semi-annually on results to the Deputy Ministers' Committee;
- the Deputy Ministers' Committee which reviews and recommends the annual
release of funds that are held in frozen allotment by Treasury Board
Secretariate (TBS), and recommends the Minister's approval of changes,
where objectives of this MOU change materially;
- the Minister who approves changes where objectives of this MOU change
materially and who constitutes the last resort for dispute resolution.
A TBS official sits as an ex-officio member on the JMC.
This MOU Governance Structure is supported by the Interdepartmental Director
General Working Group, which is the relevant Directors General of AAFC and CFIA
and the Senior Director at TBS.
Partners
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Contact
Policy:
Johanne Beaulieu
Director General
Food Safety and Quality Policy Directorate
(613) 759-7547
Programs:
Anita Stanger
Director
Food Safety and Quality Programs Division
(613) 759-6234
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