Safe Foods for Canadians Regulation (SFCR) was introduced on January 15th, 2019 to modernize how food businesses approach and regulate food safety. SFCR monitors imported, exported, or interprovincially traded food products. Also, it lets Canadians have a strong, world-class regulatory foundation for managing risks through three pillars: licensing, traceability, and preventive controls.
The goal of Safe Food for Canadians Regulations is to ensure consistency and uniformity of rules across all types of foods, diminish management burden, and enable food businesses to be inventive through outcome-based provisions. As an outcome of SFCR regulations, food businesses are able to use innovative technology, prevent foodborne illness, withdraw unsafe food from the market in case of any incidents.