CFIA learning catalogue

This online course provides participants with information which describes the purpose and content of the Food Safety Emergency Response Functional Plan (FSERFP), the incident command structure that is used for a food safety issue, the communication and reporting relationships during a food safety emergency and how they differ from day to day business, the process used to assess and manage a food safety emergency.

The Food Safety Investigation Course provides CFIA employees with the knowledge and skills required to identify and respond to food safety incidents.

This toolkit is for self-study by employees to familiarize themselves with the food safety investigation process when they are not required to take the I6B141 course. You will not receive a completion certificate. Please check with your Area Training Team to confirm whether you are required to take the I6B141 – Food Safety Investigation - Virtual Classroom course before using this toolkit.

This course provides practical information on the 3 food sample collection procedures: Planned, As required and Official sample collection tasks with an emphasis on the triggers for each task and the national sampling plans. Participants will gain knowledge on how to follow the steps for each procedures.

This course provides practical information on the food sample collection process with an emphasis on specific sample collection techniques that are required for all food sample collection tasks. Participants will gain knowledge on how to find and locate the information related to these tasks and learn the basic steps on how to collect a food sample.

Collection of recorded presentations on various Foreign Animal Diseases. Note that this information session is not considered as a replacement to the course “Foreign Animal Disease Recognition and Diagnostics”, PeopleSoft code I6D116.

Participants will, in the course of regular duties, be able to recognize a suspect FAD and initiate an appropriate response including gathering the clinical history and sampling for FADs.

This learning series is designed to provide essential knowledge to inspectors across all business lines, serving as the cornerstone for effective task completion. Recommended for all inspectors, regardless of commodities or business lines, the series consists of several online modules for convenient access.

This online course is designed to familiarize all CFIA Destination Inspection Service (DIS) employees with the evolution and role of the DIS.

This online course will provideparticipants with a basic understanding of inspector roles and responsibilities, inspector powers and authorities, regulatory framework, enforcement options, documentation of a non-compliance and the difference between an investigation and an inspection.

This course contains examples of what could be considered violations of various policies and directives such as the Code of Conduct and Values and Ethics Code, and what suspicious activity to look-out for.