Find operational guidance for responding to risk and non-compliance. This includes food and commodity-specific guidance on control and enforcement actions taken during the response process.
Common regulatory response guidance
The following guidance is common to all regulatory response inspection tasks
Food regulatory response guidance
Control actions
- Procedure for seizure and detention, authorizing movement and disposition
- Ordering removal, or destruction of unlawful imports
- Assessing, monitoring and documenting the disposition of non-compliant food
Enforcement actions
- Development and implementation of management oversight bodies
- Issuing a letter of non-compliance
- Conducting a meeting with the regulated party
- Procedure for suspending and lifting the suspension of a Safe Food for Canadians licence
- Procedure for suspending and lifting the suspension of an authorization to conduct a post-mortem program
- Procedure for cancelling a Safe Food for Canadians licence
- Supplemental guidance for Safe Food for Canadians licence action decision makers