Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SOR/2018-108)

Marginal note:Import information

• 13 (1) Any person who imports a food must provide to the Minister, in a form approved by the President, the following information:

  • (a) their name and address and, if they hold a licence to import, the number of that licence;

  • (b) the name and address of the person from whom the food is received;

  • (c) the name of the foreign state of origin;

  • (d) the address of the first destination of the food in Canada;

  • (e) a description of the food, including its common name and quantity;

  • (f) any information relating to the safety of the food that the Minister believes is required in order to respond to a risk of injury to human health; and

  • (g) in the case of live or raw shellfish other than the adductor muscles of scallops or the meat of geoducks, with respect to the establishment at which the shellfish was last manufactured, prepared, stored, packaged or labelled prior to its importation, the establishment’s registration number, or another identification number for the establishment, that is provided by the foreign state.

• Marginal note:Provision of import information

  (2) The information referred to in subsection (1), and any documents required by sections 96 and 104 and paragraph 167(d), must be provided before or at the time of the import.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) Despite subsection (2), in the case of a food other than a meat product, the Minister may authorize the person who imports the food, at their written request, to provide the information after the time of import, at the time specified by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Meat products

  (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the foods set out in paragraphs 25(a) and (b) are not considered to be meat products.