What is Government Technical Review?
Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments have developed a mechanism to provide oversight to on-farm food safety programs. This two-stage approach is led by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency with participation from provincial and territorial governments. The first stage takes a look at the technical requirements of the OFFS program. This involves bringing together a team of government experts in food safety to review the generic HACCP model that forms the basis of each CHC commodity-specific standard. To ensure that food safety hazards have been appropriately identified, the review proceeds to examine the corresponding manual to ensure that the food safety hazards identified in the HACCP model have been adequately addressed. The second step in government oversight entails an examination of the effectiveness of the delivery and management of the on-farm programs.
Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments have developed a mechanism to provide oversight to on-farm food safety programs. This two-stage approach is led by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency with participation from provincial and territorial governments. The first stage takes a look at the technical requirements of the CanadaGAP program. This involves bringing together a team of government experts in food safety to review the generic HACCP model that forms the basis of each CHC commodity-specific standard. To ensure that food safety hazards have been appropriately identified, the review proceeds to examine the corresponding manual to ensure that the food safety hazards identified in the HACCP model have been adequately addressed. The second step in government oversight entails an examination of the effectiveness of the delivery and management of the on-farm programs.
