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Keep on Truckin'
Transportation is often the missing link
in the food safety chain
By Ron Doering, BA, LL.B, MA, LL.D
(Exerpt reprinted with permission)
With all the talk about food safety systems from farm to fork and traceability all along the food chain, it’s surprising how little attention has been devoted to one key part of the food chain – transportation.
It won’t surprise anyone who travels our major highways to learn that trucks transport 80 to 90 percent of all consumer products – including foodstuffs – moving within Canada and North America. In fact, every day Canada gets 6,000 truckloads of food from the U.S. alone. Happily, the trucking industry has not yet been identified as a significant source of contamination of food-borne illness. However, the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is being proactive by developing with the CFIA an innovative HACCP-based Trucking Food Safety Program that meets the food safety requirements of food industry shippers. Kasar Canada Ltd. developed this program for the CTA and acts as the program registrar.
For the complete story, please visit: http://www.gowlings.com/resources/
PublicationPDFs/rdoeringApril2006.pdf
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