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Do You Need It?

Growing challenges to food supply have prompted governmental agencies to consider enforcing HACCP-based food safety systems across the field-to-fork continuum of food production and distribution. HACCP encourages shared responsibility for food safety.  Regardless of impending regulatory issues, and because of FSEP / HACCP’s many business benefits, the Canadian food industry has been implementing recognized food safety programs on a voluntary basis since the early 1990s.

You should seriously consider a HACCP based food safety program if you produce, store, transport or sell food products and you want to:

• Prove to your customers that you have taken all reasonable steps to ensure food safety within your systems.
• Experience cost savings from reduced risk of recalls and product destruction, streamlined procedures and fewer, expensive food safety incidents.
• Be able to prove best practice policies and procedures with clear, comprehensive, yet easy-to-use documentation.
• Add an enhanced degree of professionalism to an already technical and demanding industry by using a properly designed and implemented Food Safety Program
• Minimize your exposure and liability by identifying and controlling your food safety risks, using scientifically established and operationally proven control points.
• Improve your exporting competitiveness. HACCP is recognized as the internationally accepted standard for food safety. Countries are beginning to require all imported meat and poultry be produced under HACCP in the country of origin.