Food inspection guidance: preventive control inspection

Common inspection guidance

The following guidance is common to all preventive control inspection (PCI) tasks as well as commodity inspection and sample collection inspection tasks

• Standard inspection process
• Biosecurity for inspection activities
• Calibration procedures for common equipment used by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Inspectorate
• Electronic notes
• Sanitation and/or decontamination of mobile devices for routine operations
• Use of digital recording (camera, video, audio) devices during inspections

Assessing preventive controls

Food preventive control inspection

• Food preventive control and traceability inspection - Compliance verification of a system
• Food preventive control inspection – Implementation verification
• Inspection of evidence showing that control measures are effective
• Evaluating supplier food safety assurance program (former Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) agreement)
• Preventive controls inspection to verify compliance to conditions of a ministerial exemption
• Inspection of Clean-In-Place / Clean-Out-of-Place sanitation systems

Commodity specific preventive control inspection

• Meat: Compliance Verification System (CVS) and supervisory oversight
  • Compliance verification system procedure
• Slaughter and welfare
  • Domestic Pathogen Reduction Program in Poultry
  • Food animal slaughter PCI operational guidance
    • Appendix 1 – Poultry and Rabbit Slaughter PCI Operational Guidance
    • Appendix 2 – Red Meat Slaughter PCI Operational Guidance
    • Appendix 3 – Animal Welfare at Slaughter PCI Operational Guidance
    • Appendix 4 – Specified risk material at Slaughter PCI Operational Guidance
  • Operational Guidance: Food Animal Slaughter - Preventive Control Inspection - Implementation Verification
    • Appendix 1 – Poultry and Rabbit Slaughter PCI Implementation Verification Tasks
    • Appendix 2 – Red Meat Slaughter PCI Implementation Verification Tasks
    • Appendix 3 – Animal Welfare at Slaughter PCI Implementation Verification Tasks
    • Appendix 4 – Specified Risk Material Slaughter and Meat Processing PCI Implementation Verification Tasks
    • Appendix 5 - Guidance for weekly PCI case management