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Meat and Poultry Products
The meat hygiene program ensures that meat and poultry products leaving
federally-inspected establishments for interprovincial and export trade or being imported
into Canada are safe and wholesome. It also monitors registered and non-registered
establishments for labelling to avoid fraud and audits the delivery of a grading program
based on objective standards of meat quality and retail yield to facilitate the marketing
of meats from producer to consumer.
CFIA activities include:
- registration and inspection of slaughter and processing establishments of meat products;
- inspection and grading of exports and meat products for interprovincial trade;
- inspection of imported meat products;
- process, formula, labelling policy and program development, registration and
verification;
- verifying that food advertising complies with requirements;
- retail inspection including enforcing label regulations at retail; and
- residue testing.
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