SFC licensing, Preventive Control Plans, bilingual label review, and CFIA-aligned import procedures — built for importers, distributors, and manufacturers selling into the Canadian market.
Every engagement starts with a short scoping call so pricing reflects your actual products, activities, and complexity — not a generic tier.
We determine the license type you need, prepare your supporting documentation, and guide you through the My CFIA application — you remain the applicant of record.
A Preventive Control Plan built around your specific commodities, activities, and business type, scoped to what CFIA actually requires for your operation.
Full Preventive Control Plan development for manufacturing and processing operations, scoped to your process complexity rather than a flat category.
Bilingual (English/French), CFIA-aligned label review confirming your packaging meets Canadian labeling requirements before you ship.
Practical procedures and record templates to support ongoing compliance, including traceability, complaint/recall handling and supplier verification records.
For questions and scopes of work that fall outside a packaged service — regulatory questions, ad-hoc reviews, or ongoing advisory support.
For products sold in Quebec, we review labels against Quebec's provincial French-language requirements as an add-on to the standard Canada label review — priced separately based on SKU count and complexity.
We review your products, activities, and target provinces to confirm which services you actually need.
You get a written scope, deliverables, and price before any work begins — no surprise add-ons.
We prepare your PCP, label review, or application materials on the agreed timeline.
You remain the applicant of record with CFIA; we guide you through submission and any follow-up.
Straight answers on licensing, PCPs, bilingual labels, and the Non-Resident Importer route.
An SFC licence is issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and is required by anyone who imports food, or most categories of food, into Canada for sale. It's separate from any licence your foreign supplier may hold in their own country. If you're bringing food products into Canada, you're almost always the party who needs to hold the licence, not your overseas manufacturer.
A Preventive Control Plan (PCP) is scoped to what you actually do. An importer or distributor PCP focuses on supplier verification, receiving, storage, and traceability, since you're not physically making the product. A manufacturer or processor PCP addresses applicable hazards, preventive controls, monitoring, verification, corrective actions and SFCR requirements for your own production line. CFIA expects the plan to match your real activities, so we scope it accordingly rather than selling a one-size-fits-all document.
In limited cases, yes, through CFIA's Non-Resident Importer (NRI) provision. Eligibility depends on where your business is located, the food or product, and the applicable requirements. For businesses located outside the U.S., NRI eligibility is generally limited to certain meat and live/raw shellfish imports, subject to CFIA-recognized countries, inspection systems, products and establishments. Outside those cases, the practical route is a Canadian entity acting as the importer of record. We can talk through which situation applies to you on the scoping call.
English and French are both required on food labels sold anywhere in Canada, not just Quebec, this is a federal requirement under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations. Quebec has its own additional provincial French-language rules under Bill 96 that go beyond the federal bilingual requirement, which is why we handle that as a separate add-on review for products specifically sold into Quebec.
It depends on the scope and how complete your existing documentation is. A straightforward PCP for an importer or distributor typically moves faster than a manufacturer or processor PCP. We give you a specific timeline as part of the fixed-scope proposal after the free scoping call, before any work begins.
No. Our prices cover advisory and document preparation only. CFIA licence fees are paid directly to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and are set and adjusted by CFIA independently of us, current fee schedules are published at inspection.canada.ca.
You remain the applicant of record with CFIA, since the licence is tied to your business. We prepare the supporting documentation, walk you through the My CFIA application step by step, and guide you through any follow-up requests CFIA comes back with.
Tell us about your product and we'll come back with a fixed-scope proposal — no obligation.