Program directory · Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Monitoring and Enforcement for Food Safety and Consumer Protection
- Department
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
- Program code
- BUH11 (CFIA)
- Core responsibility
- Safe food and healthy plants and animals
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
This program monitors and enforces regulated parties’ compliance with the requirements. It is risk based and aims to protect consumer health, keep consumers safe from harmful and/or misleading practices, and facilitates domestic and international trade.
The program impacts regulated parties, consumers, trading partners and CFIA staff.
The program reduces risk with the following activities:
- monitors regulated parities compliance with the requirements by conducting inspections, collecting samples and laboratory testing
- takes control and or enforcement action when food products present a risk
- takes enforcement action and or actions on a permission when non-compliance is not resolved in a given timeframe
The program aligns with the Departmental Results Framework Core Responsibility: “Safe food and healthy plants and animals,.” and supports the Departmental Result: “Food sold in Canada is safe and accurately represented to Canadians”.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitoring and Enforcement for Food Safety and Consumer Protection | This program | 2018-19 – 2028-29 | $1.97B |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
No significant changes detected.
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | ≥ 95% | 2019 | 96.9% | Met |
| 2019-20 | ≥ 95% | 2020 | 89.8% Of the 341 high risk recalls, thirteen did not meet the standards; six of those thirteen were related to two large simultaneous recall events. Confirming recall details to ensure public warning accuracy was the primary reason for the delays. | Not met |
| 2020-21 | ≥ 95% | 2021 | 100% | Met |
| 2021-22 | ≥ 95% | 2022 | 95% | Met |
| 2022-23 | ≥ 95% | 2023 | 95.8% | Met |
| 2023-24 | ≥ 95% | 2024 | 98.1% | Met |
| 2024-25 | ≥ 95% | 2025 | 97.9% | Met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 95% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $235M | $274M |
| 2019-20 | $221M | $250M |
| 2020-21 | $234M | $296M |
| 2021-22 | $250M | $277M |
| 2022-23 | $263M | $278M |
| 2023-24 | $257M | $306M |
| 2024-25 | $271M | $292M |
| 2025-26 | $287M | — |
| 2026-27 | $278M | — |
| 2027-28 | $278M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $278M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 2,229 | 2,244 |
| 2019-20 | 2,071 | 2,203 |
| 2020-21 | 2,214 | 2,319 |
| 2021-22 | 2,241 | 2,396 |
| 2022-23 | 2,362 | 2,380 |
| 2023-24 | 2,290 | 2,328 |
| 2024-25 | 2,312 | 2,245 |
| 2025-26 | 2,287 | — |
| 2026-27 | 2,188 | — |
| 2027-28 | 2,174* | — |
| 2028-29 | 2,171* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $234,922,031 | $210,032,209 | $210,076,206 | ||||||||
| 2019-20 plan | $221,000,761 | $221,000,761 | $221,000,761 | ||||||||
| 2020-21 plan | $233,665,700 | $229,204,655 | $229,591,987 | ||||||||
| 2021-22 plan | $249,953,906 | $253,385,821 | $251,794,354 | ||||||||
| 2022-23 plan | $262,632,722 | $245,494,232 | $239,801,209 | ||||||||
| 2023-24 plan | $256,703,000 | $247,516,000 | $241,796,000 | ||||||||
| 2024-25 plan | $270,986,000 | $263,646,000 | $259,382,928 | ||||||||
| 2025-26 plan | $287,422,981 | $274,605,892 | $274,308,423 | ||||||||
| 2026-27 plan | $277,561,957 | $277,812,328 | $277,876,162 | ||||||||
| Actual | $274,081,044 | $250,469,362 | $295,851,007 | $277,020,139 | $277,721,736 | $305,580,216 | $291,777,913 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
