Food imports
Rules, licences, preventive control plans, traceability, notices, and oversight.
Services and information
Step-by-step guide
How to import food into Canada.
Importing specific foods
Rules by food type.
Importing food with a licence
Automatic licence verification, steps to make sure you have a valid licence, how to correct errors.
Preventative control plan for importers
How to develop, put in place and maintain a plan to make sure imported food is safe.
Automated Import Reference System (AIRS)
Find applicable import requirements by commodity classification, origin, destination, or end use.
Importing from certain countries
Requirements for importing from CFIA-accepted food safety systems.
Non-resident importers
Steps to follow if you do not live in Canada.
General requirements
Licences, preventive control plans, traceability documents and recall steps.
Food import notices
Changes to rules and important reminders.
Foreign food safety systems
Other countries whose food safety levels are equal to Canada.
Foreign establishment verifications
CFIA verification of foreign establishments that manufacture food for export to Canada.
Features
Requirements for peaches going into British Columbia
British Columbia is the only commercial peach-growing area of North America to be free from of the Oriental fruit moth.