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The Food Safety Program supports developing food-safety strategies and activities. This includes:
- food-safety education and training activities;
- implementing food-safety beneficial management practices (BMPs);
- food-safety regulatory compliance activities; and
- livestock and agri-product traceability initiatives.
Eligible Applicants
- Producer.
- Processor.
- Retailer.
- Producer or processor organizations.
- Agricultural non-profit.
- Government.
Eligible Expenses
- Activities that address food safety issues:
- during agri-food harvest;
- in storage;
- in production; and
- in processing.
- Presenting and participating in:
- food safety; and
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) training, workshops, seminars and conferences.
- Activities to facilitate adopting Good Manufacturing Practices and international standards such as:
- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP); or
- ISO 22000 in food processing plants.
- Activities to implement food-safety beneficial management practices. This includes purchasing and installing:
- temperature-control equipment;
- stainless steel food processing platforms;
- water-treatment equipment; and
- impermeable wall materials.
- Professional consultant services that provides analytical and technical advice to help you:
- develop food safety systems so you meet standards and regulations; and
- put in place agri-food traceability or assurance systems.
- Acquiring special equipment or software to:
- put food-safety systems and standards in place on farms and in processing facilities; and
- equipment needed for agri-food traceability or assurance initiatives.
Deadline Date
OngoingContact
Contact Name: Government of Yukon, Agriculture Branch
Phone Number: 867-667-5838
E-mail Address: agriculture@gov.yk.ca
