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
- Slaughter and welfare
- Domestic Pathogen Reduction Program in Poultry
- Food animal 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
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