Inspection and enforcement
Procedures for our staff, getting ready for an inspection of your business, how we enforce policy and recent investigations.
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Inspection
Guidance for food inspectors
Procedures and responses to risk or when a business does not comply.
Inspection guides for industry
How to be ready if you produce, process, import, or export food or transport animals.
Get ready for your inspection
What to expect before, during, and after an inspection.
Inspection verification
How we find ways to improve our process, Inspection Verification Office's annual reports.
Food safety investigation and recall process
How we act if there is a safety issue with food.
Aquatic animal disease investigations
Steps when we investigate a suspected case of aquatic animal disease.
Inspections for buyers of shipped produce
Get an inspection of fresh fruit or vegetables.
Livestock feeds
National Feed Inspection Program, industry and inspector guidance, reports, and policy clarification.
Seeds
Inspection procedures, specific work instructions, licensing, oversight, sampling, trade certification, industrial hemp.
Potatoes
Manuals, procedures, compliance, biosecurity, and plant protection policy directives.
Enforcement
Enforcement activities
Monetary penalties, suspensions, cancellations, charges laid, prosecution bulletins, and reports.
Food safety investigations
Reports on food safety incidents that have caused serious illnesses.
Food enforcement framework
How we will enforce the new food regulations.
Compliance and Enforcement Policy
The principles, roles, functions and ways we enforce regulations.
Compliance continuum
How we work with industry, granting permissions, promoting and verifying compliance, responding to non-compliance, and recourse.
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