Learn more about the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's (CFIA) science and research.
Blog
Fact sheets
- Science fact sheet: Using DNA science to fight food-borne illness
- Science fact sheet: Using genomics tools for day-to-day applications
Science scans, publications and policies
- CFIA Policy on Scientific Integrity
- Food safety testing reports and journal articles
- Plant science scans (2012 – 2019)
Articles
- Fantastic feasts: How CFIA's Burnaby Lab guards your food against fiendish fungus
- Bugging you to do your part
- Making grapes into wine – it's di-vine!
- What is in your bag of frozen berries? The Science sleuths at CFIA take a closer look
- This spud's for YOU: CFIA's role in protecting Canadian potatoes
- Internationally renowned Winnipeg lab fights avian influenza and other animal viruses with cutting-edge science
- Animal safety deserves a big "appaws"
Reports
- Plant health survey reports (published annually, from 2018 to 2024)
- Food Fraud Annual Report (2022 to 2023)
- Food Fraud Annual Report (2021 to 2022)
- Food Fraud Annual Report (2020 to 2021)
- Report: Enhanced Fish Species Substitution Surveillance (2019 to 2020)
- Report: Honey authenticity surveillance results (2019 to 2020)
- Enhanced honey authenticity surveillance (2018 to 2019)
- Review of the State of Knowledge on Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli and the Role of Whole Genome Sequencing as an Emerging Technology Supporting Regulatory Food Safety in Canada
Other CFIA publications
Researchers and scientists from the CFIA also contribute to work published in other journals or books.
Publications on the Establishment-based risk assessment models
ERA-Feed Mill
- Food Control, Volume 121, March 2021: Identification and selection of animal health and food safety-related risk factors to be included in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's risk assessment model for livestock feed mills
ERA-Hatchery
- Foodborne Pathogens and Disease, April 21, 2020: Expert Elicitation to Estimate the Relative Risk of Food Safety Criteria Included in the Establishment-Based Risk Assessment Model for Canadian Hatcheries
- Zoonosis Public Health, September 24, 2019: Identification and selection of food safety‐related risk factors to be included in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's Establishment‐based Risk Assessment model for Hatcheries
ERA-Food
- International Journal of Food Microbiology, Volume 305, September 16, 2019: Source attribution at the Food Sub-Product level for the Development of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency Risk Assessment Model
- Food Control, Volume 92, October 2018: Quantifying the impact of food safety criteria included in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency risk assessment model for food establishments through Expert Elicitation
- Journal of Food Microbiology, Volume 75, October 2018: Selection of risk factors to be included in the Canadian Food Inspection Agency risk assessment inspection model for food establishments
- Microbial Risk Analysis, Volume 11, April 2019: Identification of risk factors to be considered for food establishments' risk assessment models