CFIA’s Food Safety Action Plan

CFIA’s Food Safety Action Plan (FSAP) aims to modernize and strengthen Canada's food safety system, and better support the collective responsibilities that government, industry and consumers have for food safety.

Industry is responsible for the safety of products it brings onto the market. The FSAP measures include ways to verify that industry's preventative approaches are working. This will support the CFIA's intention to shift from a reactive to a proactive approach.

Industry's role has been limited to informal engagement and discussions, given that the CFIA has focussed on the design and development of the key components of a food safety system. In Year 2 and beyond, the Agency will seek greater industry engagement in the development and delivery of FSAP objectives.

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