{"id":2107,"date":"2018-10-02T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.produceinventory.com\/blog\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2018-10-02T11:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:00:55","slug":"safe-food-for-canadians-regulations-starting-january-15-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.produceinventory.com\/blog\/safe-food-for-canadians-regulations-starting-january-15-2019\/2018\/10\/02\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe Food for Canadians: Regulations Starting January 15, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspection.gc.ca\/food\/sfcr\/toolkit-for-businesses\/traceability\/eng\/1427310329573\/1427310330167\">Fact Sheet: Traceability<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.produceinventory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/bigstock-Greengrocer-Shop-City-Building-93894539.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.produceinventory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/bigstock-Greengrocer-Shop-City-Building-93894539-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"fresh produce grocer \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Traceability is the ability to track the movement of a food or a food commodity, one step back and one step forward. Under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR), <strong>new traceability requirements<\/strong> will apply to most food businesses that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>import food<\/li>\n<li>export food<\/li>\n<li>distribute or send food products across provincial or territorial borders<\/li>\n<li>manufacture, process, treat, preserve, grade, store, package or label food to be exported or sent across provincial or territorial borders<\/li>\n<li>grow and harvest fresh fruits or vegetables to be exported or sent across provincial or territorial borders<\/li>\n<li>slaughter food animals from which meat products are derived, where the meat product is exported or sent across provincial or territorial borders<\/li>\n<li>store and handle edible meat products in their imported condition for inspection by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)<\/li>\n<li>sell food to consumers at retail, which would need to be traced one step back but not forward to the consumer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out what <a href=\"https:\/\/na1se.voxco.com\/SE\/93\/traceability\/?&amp;lang=en\">traceability requirements<\/a> apply to you and when by using the <a href=\"https:\/\/na1se.voxco.com\/SE\/93\/traceability\/?&amp;lang=en\">traceability interactive tool<\/a>. It only takes 5 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact Sheet: Traceability Traceability is the ability to track the movement of a food or a food commodity, one step back and one step forward. Under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR), new traceability requirements will apply to most food businesses that: import food export food distribute or send food products across provincial or &#8230; <a title=\"Safe Food for Canadians: Regulations Starting January 15, 2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.produceinventory.com\/blog\/safe-food-for-canadians-regulations-starting-january-15-2019\/2018\/10\/02\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Safe Food for Canadians: Regulations Starting January 15, 2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1098,1276,1282,1283],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff-were-working-on","tag-sfcr","tag-traceability-in-food","tag-traceability-regulations-for-fresh-produce","tag-traceability-requirements","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","no-featured-image-padding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Safe Food for Canadians - New Regulations January 15, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Traceability is the ability to track the movement of a food or food commodity, one step back and one step forward. 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