date:Jul 17, 2014
Today, the Government of Canada is further strengthening Canada's food safety system by allowing the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to issue monetary penalties to businesses that do not meet Canada's meat safety requirements. The new regulatory amendment expands Administrative Monetary Penalities (AMPs) to the Meat Inspection Act and the Meat Inspection Regulations, 1990.
The regulations come into force immediately. The CFIA will be working with the Canadian meat industry to help gradua