Final report of an audit conducted in the United States of America to evaluate the food safety systems governing the production of meat and poultry products intended for export to Canada – January 23rd to February 10th, 2017
Executive summary
This report describes the outcome of an on-site audit assessment of the food safety systems in the United States of America (USA; hereafter referred as US) governing the production of meat and meat products intended for export to Canada that was conducted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from January 23 to February 10, 2017. Overall, the audit showed that food safety systems in the US are performing as intended in an adequate manner and generally demonstrate an acceptable implementation of controls for all areas described above. Based on the audit findings, recommendations are made with the intent of finding solutions for identified deficiencies.
The main objective of the audit was to verify that the food safety systems governing meat products in the US are functioning in a manner determined to be equivalent to that of Canada producing meat products that are safe, unadulterated, and properly labelled. The scope of assessment focused on verification of activities within the following subject areas:
- competent authority and oversight
- ante-mortem, humane handling and animal welfare controls
- slaughter and post-mortem
- processing controls
- hazard analysis and critical control points plan and pre-requisite programs controls
- microbiological controls
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