Alan Grant- Food and Beverage Ontario- Member Feedback on the Safe Food for Canadian Act
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Alan Grant, Director of Industry Relations for Food and Beverage Ontario, shares member feedback to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on the Safe Food for Canadian's Act. View the full webinar: http://blog.syspro.com/2014/09/25/catering-for-the-safe-food-for-canadians-act Alan is a food industry veteran with over 35 years of experience across multiple sectors. He has held senior operations, management, quality and technical responsibilities in the packaging industry with Ball Packaging Inc and CROWN Metal Packaging Inc where he was a supplier to many processors in the food and beverage (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) sectors. As a quality management consultant he has provided assistance to beverage processors across North America. Alan has also held senior quality and food safety responsibilities with two of Canada's largest grocery retailers, Sobey's and A&P Canada/Metro. During this time he also served as chair of the Food Safety Committee of the Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors where he helped to lead implementation of improved food safety expectations across the retail grocery sector. He has served as the Industry Co-Chair on the development of OMAF's On-Farm Food Safety Program as well as serving as an industry expert on the review panel for OMAF's Healthy Futures For Ontario program.
Transcript of Alan Grant- Food and Beverage Ontario- Member Feedback on the Safe Food for Canadian Act
Member Feedback onSafe Food For Canadians Act
Who We Are
• Not for profit industry association• Represents food and beverage processors
GOAL:To promote and support a competitive Ontario industry locally and within the global marketplace
Common Member Key Issues
• Regulations• Branding Ontario product• Funding opportunities• Labour• Education• Quality & food safety
Board Members
Safe Food For Canadians Act Major changes to the proposed regs
Major changes in the proposed regulations:• Licensing requirement• Preventative Control Plans (PCP’s)• Risk analysis• Traceability
Safe Food For Canada Act FBO Member Feedback
Member concerns:• Licensing• Cost to business• Import harmonization• Written PCP exemptions• Implementation timeline• Compliance promotion• Inspection activities
Safe Food For Canada Act FBO Member Feedback
Licensing:• How will the process work• What events will require updates to a license• A large but unknown number of businesses will now
require federal inspection & license
Safe Food For Canada Act FBO Member Feedback
2. Cost to business• Actual business cost is unknown variable• Every business evaluation will be unique • Where to go for funding assistance• Could the cost to business be tax deductible
Safe Food For Canadians Act FBO Member Feedback
3. Import harmonization• Importers will require a license & written PCP• Consideration for 3rd party verification of int’l
manufacturers
Safe Food For Canada Act FBO Member Feedback
4. Written PCP exemptions• Consider raising the exemption ceiling higher than the
current proposal of $30K• Eg consider harmonizing with USA on exemptions for
equivalent standards for similar sized businesses• Eg not only annual sales but employees numbers
Safe Food For Canada Act FBO Member Feedback
5. Implementation timeline• Timeline based on 3 groups:
1. Current federal plants2. Fruits & veg3. Current non-federal plants
• Propose to allow more time and consideration for #3 to comply to all facets of the regs (2017 +)
• Break #3 into subgroups to extend timeline
Safe Food For Canadians Act FBO Member Feedback
6. Compliance promotion:• Improvements to website• On-line tools could be more interactive• Transparency in sharing rationale on decisions • Industry access to COE and other expertise• Consideration for new website hosted by CFIA & Health Canada
dedicated to industry needs• Aggregating data on decisions to assist industry in improving gener • Track –share-leverage outcomes for educational uses• Timely communications on precedent-setting decisions• Guidance documents in plain language
Safe Food For Canadians Act FBO Member Feedback
7. Inspection activities:• Consistency & transparency• Interactive mechanisms in place for consulting on CFIA
decision making (eg industry access to COE)• Practices & challenges associated with inspector
training on various processes• Office of Complaints & Appeals – how will this work?• Recalls: more communication on decision making and
lessons learned, post recall assessments
