The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) works with various national and international bodies and not-for-profit organizations to meet food safety standards and improve awareness and consumer protection.
Food Safety
Audits of meat inspection
The CFIA conducts audits of the food safety systems of Canada's trading partners, including various elements of their meat inspection systems.
Memorandums of Cooperation and/or Understanding
The CFIA works with international counterparts to establish areas of common work, cooperation and understanding to be developed and/or accomplished in the near future.
Organic equivalency arrangements
The CFIA establishes organic equivalency arrangements with other countries after assessing and comparing each other’s regulatory systems and standards for consistency.
Regulatory partnership
The CFIA works with other countries such as the United States to align regulatory approaches where possible in order to improve consistency and reduce their complexity and strengthen consumer protection.
Plant and animal health
As a key deliverable under the Emergency Management Framework for Agriculture in Canada, federal, provincial, and territorial ministers of agriculture asked partners to work collaboratively to develop an integrated strategy to prevent and mitigate risks to plant and animal resources.
The Plant and Animal Health Strategy is consistent with the one health concept, in that it recognizes that safeguarding plant and animal health contributes to protecting the health of humans and the environment.