Today, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health, announced the intention to introduce new penalties for businesses that fail to respect Canadian meat safety requirements...
These fines, known as Administrative Monetary Penalties (AMPs), provide Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) inspectors with an additional enforcement option when working with the meat industry. For example, they may be applied if a company withholds information, such as a positive E. coli test result, or records that are needed as part of a food safety investigation, or if a company is regularly identified for not complying with requirements.
Strict fines for food safety violations are another step the Government of Canada is taking to protect consumers. The Healthy and Safe Food for Canadians Framework outlines additional activities being undertaken by the CFIA and its federal food safety partners, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada...
This has been excerpted from the 22 November 2013 press release by CFIA, and is available in its entirety at: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/news-releases/2013-11-21/eng/1385045699661/1385045712928.
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Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
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