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This Page will highlight recent Food Processing Industry Updates
July 2021
Item: CFIA is moving to ERA (establishment based risk assessment). In this process the current CVS (Compliance verification system) will be replaced by the new SIP (standard inspection process). Each facility will need to complete the AEI (additional establishment information) questionnaire in their MyCFIA profile. CFIA then assigns a Risk-Level to your plant. Some food commodities have started, others are coming up soon, like this fall and spring 2022. Be very careful in completing this questionnaire as it can effect how many audits and inspections you get per year. Contact me for more information.
June 2021
Item: GFSI Code Edition – 9 in effect since May 24th, 2021. Basic Changes include; Now 5-codes for manufacturing up from 4, Scoring changes, Unannounced audits changes, No more Desk Audits, No more Audit duration tables, Added Food-Safety-Culture!, Changes to High & Low Risk, Training Requirements, Changes in Ventilation, Ambient Air Testing, Changes to PC’s – Storage – Distribution Standards. Changes in water testing.
June 2021
Item: Minister Bibeau welcomes recognition that Canada is negligible risk for BSE
June 2021
Item: Minister Bibeau welcomes recognition that Canada is negligible risk for BSE
March 2021
Item: Condensation Best Practices being reviewed
March 2021
Item: Old Inspection Legend transition to License to Operate Number timeline revealed.
April 2021
Item: New CFIA – Work Shift Agreement Guidelines coming soon
May 2021
Item: If you are GFSI certified and have 1-practitioner for all departments – consider having a practitioner for each department (QA, purchasing, HR, operations, maintenance) who will keep up to date, add new or review all programs and procedures for that department and sign off. They can also present to the auditor. One overall facility practitioner should still exist and coordinate the internal audit and other practitioners.