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Agriculture
Food Safety and Quality Program
This program is designed to provide support to develop and implement initiatives that identify and/or minimize food safety risks or otherwise increase the safety of food produced in this territory, including the safety of people working in the industry that might be exposed to various risks inherent in the industry.
The objectives of the Canada-Yukon Food Safety and Quality Program are:
- To create, implement and to partner with industry and processors to develop food safety strategies;
- To develop and implement traceability systems that are complimentary to the National Traceability Policy;
- To implement regulatory compliance for food and health issues associated with farm business activities; and
- To create, implement and to partner with industry to increase utilization of standardized processing facilities.
Food Safety Strategies Initiative
This initiative encourages the creation, implementation and partnership in the development of food safety strategies for all agri-food commodities in the territory. These strategies will allow standardized creation, development and implementation of the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) or HACCP-based systems on the farm and in the processing sector.
Eligible Activities:
May include, but not limited to, activities that support and create in partnership with government and National Producer Organizations the development of food safety strategies. More specifically, the initial program will provide support to access recognized Food Safe Level I and II training courses.
Eligible Applicants:
Agricultural producers, processors, cooperatives, governments and not-for-profit organizations.
Eligible Costs:
May include, but not limited to, professional, technical, analytical support and training.
Maximum Funding Levels:
Assistance may be provided up to 100% of actual costs.
Regulatory Compliance of Food Safety Initiative
This initiative contributes to the regulatory compliance of food safety and food quality, health and safety issues associated with agribusiness activities. The focus is on food safety and food quality legislation that producers and processors require in emerging sectors. The initial undertaking will be a regulatory review of existing legislation within the Territory and how food safe legislation is dealt with in other areas of Canada. Following this initial step, the focus will shift to identifying emerging areas of Agriculture in the Yukon that require legislative support for it to advance.
Eligible Activities:
May include, but not limited to, providing regulatory support for food safety and food quality activities in support of HACCP or HACCP-based requirements: or other food safety and quality measures as they arise.
Eligible Applicants:
Agricultural producers, processors, partnerships, corporations, cooperatives, governments and not-for-profit organizations.
Eligible Costs:
May include, but not limited to, professional, technical and analytical support.
Maximum Funding Levels:
Assistance may be provided up to 50% of actual costs for individual agriculture producers, processors, partnerships, or corporations; up to 75% of actual costs for cooperatives or farm groups representing three or more agribusinesses; and up to 100% of actual costs for government and not-for-profit organizations.
This initiative contributes to the implementation of federal/provincial/territorial traceability systems which will establish a framework for data sharing, management and integration throughout the agri-foods sector. As a result, national food safety and quality linkages will be formed. Territorially, the program will focus on continuing the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) monitoring program and support for participation in the national livestock identification program.
Eligible Activities:
May include, but not limited to, activities that support the development and implementation of traceability systems based on national standards with linkages to national food safety and quality linkages.
Eligible Applicants:
Agricultural producers, processors, partnerships, corporations, cooperatives, governments and not-for-profit organizations.
Eligible Costs:
May include, but not limited to, equipment, technical and analytical support.
Maximum Funding Levels:
Assistance may be provided up to 50% of actual costs for individual agricultural producers, processors, partnerships, or corporations; up to 75% of actual costs for cooperatives or farm groups representing three or more agribusinesses; and up to 100% of actual costs for government and not-for-profit organizations.
Food Safety Processing Utilization Initiative
This initiative encourages the creation, implementation and partnership in developing incentives to increase use of standardized processing facilities.
Eligible Activities:
May include, but not limited to, activities that support the broad based use of facilities that provide standardized food safe outcomes.
Eligible Applicants:
Agricultural producers, processors, partnerships, cooperatives and not-for-profit organizations.
Eligible Costs:
May include, but not limited to support for the usage of standardized processing facilities.
Maximum Funding Levels:
Assistance may be provided up to 100% of actual costs.
National Food Safety and Quality Programs
On-Farm Implementation
This program is designed to:
- Facilitate implementation at the farm level of national commodity specific Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)-based on-farm food systems including underlying traceability system.
- Provide tools to assist those producers who require or wish to implement a HACCP-based program on their operations to meet or exceed market demand or improve upon their good production practices.
Eligible Participants
- National Producer Organizations (NPOs) on behalf of producers across Canada. To be eligible for funding a NPO must have completed the Canadian Food Inspection Agency technical review. Currently the chicken, egg and dairy producer organizations have completed the technical review.
Eligible Activities
1. Producer Workshops
- Workshops delivered by NPOs to ensure consistency of information and service to producers on implementation of food safety, quality and traceability systems.
- One-time benefit of $100/producer to subsidize the cost of attending food safety or traceability workshops paid through NPOs.
2. On-Farm Support
- Up to $750/producer will be available which can be used for technical support and/or the purchase of specialized equipment, where necessary for food safety systems.
a) Technical Support:
- One-on-one technical advice at the farm level with a NPO designated specialist to adapt and implement generic national food safety, traceability and quality systems to the specific operation.
- Visits by technical specialists will encompass plan development, review of implementation strategy and pre-audit.
b) Specialized Equipment
- Purchase of specialized equipment which has been identified under the Canadian On-Farm Food Safety Recognition technical review and included in the producer manual.
Program Delivery
- National Producer Organizations will administer the program and will be supported through contribution agreements with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
- See Program Guidelines (
113 KB) for project application requirements.
Agriculture Branch
Phone: 867.667.5838
Toll Free: 1.800.661.0408 ext. 5838
Fax: 867.393.6222
E-mail: agriculture@gov.yk.ca