By obtaining a licence from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) under the new Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR), your company will be eligible for importing food, as well as preparing food for export and inter-provincial trade, including meats, poultry, fish, and agricultural products such as eggs, dairy products, honey, and processed products.

To help food business comply with the new SFCR, our food safety/PCP consultants are ready to assist in preparation of a preventive control plan (PCP) to demonstrate how hazards and risks associated with your food are addressed, and obtain licences from the CFIA, which include the CFIA import licence, export licence, and the licence for manufacturing, processing, treating, preserving, grading, packaging or labelling food to be sent interprovincially.

• Help apply for a Safe Food for Canadian (SFC) licence from the CFIA in order to conduct your specific activities relating to food importation, exportation or manufacturing under the SFCR that consolidates the Meat Inspection Act, Fish Inspection Act, Canada Agricultural Products Act, and Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act
• Prepare a written preventive control plan (PCP) and traceability/recall program to comply with the SFCR requirements and obtain a licence from the CFIA
• Assist in implementing and maintaining your existing PCP
• Review and update your existing HACCP system and FSEP plan as needed to meet all applicable preventive control requirements of the new regulations/SFCR
• Develop and implement food safety management programs to meet the CFIA's requirements including Food Safety Enhancement Program (FSEP), Quality Management Program (QMP) and Export Certification Control Program (ECCP) Plan
• Provide support for preparation for government/regulatory inspections and verification

The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) recognized standards are the world's leading food safety and quality management systems that are designed to meet the needs of retailers and suppliers worldwide. GFSI certification enables suppliers to assure their customers that food has been produced, prepared and handled according to the global highest possible standards.

Our experienced Food Safety Consultants, including SQF Consultants, BRC Consultants can help your company achieve any one of the GFSI recognized certification including SQF, BRC or FSSC 22000 for food manufacturing, manufacture of food packaging and storage & distribution. The following are some of the services to help your company get certified:

• Perform a gap analysis and pre-assessment of your existing food safety management system against any one of the GFSI recognized schemes
• Assist in attaining SQF, BRC, and FSSC 22000 certification recognized by GFSI
• Develop and implement an effective SQF system including a Food Quality Plan for all level certification requirements
• Develop and implement an effective food safety and quality management system to meet the BRC Global Standard requirements, including food safety, packaging and packaging materials, storage and distribution
• Conduct risk assessment on food defense, food fraud and vulnerability
• Support for preparation of third-party certification audits 
• Assist in root cause analysis for non-conformances identified during a third-party audit and development of corrective actions and preventive measures for continuous improvement

Whether you start developing new HACCP and food safety programs, or are improving an existing HACCP system, our Food Safety/HACCP Consultants can provide you with expert consulting services, from HACCP program development, implementation, to system maintenance and reassessment:

• Develop Prerequisite Programs, HACCP plans, and food safety and quality plans
• Develop a specific HACCP plan based on your unique product and process
• Develop and implement an environmental/end product sampling and testing plan to comply with the Canadian "Policy on Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to eat foods"  
• Train employees on GMP, HACCP, sanitation, allergen controls and internal audits 

HACCP system maintenance and reassessment ensures your food safety programs are kept up-to-date, and are effective in controlling hazards. We offer the following services to help:

• Provide on-going verification and maintenance of your existing programs
• Conduct periodic HACCP system validation and reassessment
• Perform product microbiological sampling and environmental monitoring
• Assist in third party certification audits and regulatory compliance verification (CVS)
• Provide support for preparation of the government and third party audits
• Conduct root cause analysis and identify appropriate corrective actions and preventive measures to address issues identified during regulatory and third party audits 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized seven major rules to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Generally, it requires domestic and foreign food facilities, where applicable, to have a food safety plan in place that includes an analysis of hazards and risk-based preventive controls to minimize or prevent the identified hazards.

UFSG will assist your business in achieving and maintaining FSMA requirements. We provide services that:

• Conduct a gaps assessment on your current food safety programs to determine the level of FSMA regulatory compliance
• Help with development and implementation of an effective Preventive Controls Risk Based Food Safety Plan for Human Food 
• Provide consultation on Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP)
• Assist your business in achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance

To learn more about our consulting services, please contact us.

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