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Meat Inspection Regulations, 1990 (SOR/90-288).

Country/Territory
Canada
Document type
Regulation
Date
1990 (2014)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Hygiene/sanitary procedures Meat Inspection Packaging/labelling HACCP Offences/penalties Food quality control/food safety
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

The present Regulations enact the Meat Inspection Act. The Act contains at the outset a definition clause relating to various terms therein employed, such as “Agency”, “animal food”, “ante-mortem examination”, “control programme”, “farmed game animal”, “food additive”, "HACCP plan", “ham”, "hermetically sealed container", “inspection” and "pre-packaged". The text consists of 137 sections divided into 5 Parts as follows: Standards (I); Registration (II); Examination, inspection, humane treatment and slaughter, packaging and labelling (III); Trade (IV); Administration (V). Four Schedules are enclosed as follows: Standards for meat products (I); Permitted weights for pre-packaged meat products (II); Meat inspection legend (III); Processing and labelling requirements for meat products (IV).

Full text
English
Website
www.gc.ca

References - Legislation

Implements

Meat Inspection Act, (R.S.C. 1985, c. 25) (1st Supp.).

Legislation | Canada | 1985 (2015)

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Inspection, Meat, Processing/handling, Internal trade, International trade, Slaughtering

Source: FAO, FAOLEX