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Food Safety

The Canadian Feed Industry is a Leader in Food Safety

The Canadian feed industry plays a unique and dynamic role within the food production cycle, and is a vital link in the agri-food chain. Livestock and poultry producers rely on feed manufacturers to provide a reliable and consistent supply of safe, nutritionally balanced feed for their animals.

Food safety is not only a priority for the Canadian feed industry; it is a responsibility. There is growing awareness on the part of consumers, home and abroad, and other stakeholders in the livestock and poultry industries, of their impact on food safety, and of their responsibility to maintain it. More and more, individual stakeholders are implementing good manufacturing practices and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) based programs to ensure that their particular link in the agri-food chain is not a source of biological, physical or chemical contamination.

Principles of Safe Food Applied to Feed

In the 1990s, the feed industry in Canada understood that feed production is an integral part of the food production chain and that principles used for safe food production could be adapted to feed production.   The same rigour that is used to ensure the safety of food has been applied to feed through the FeedAssure ™ program. FeedAssure ™ is modeled after the Food Safety Enhancement Program (FSEP), a successful program developed in 1991 by Agriculture Canada in consultation with the food industry in Canada.