Registration - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Agriculture
• Consumer Issues
• Environment
• Health
• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Internal Trade
• International Trade
• Science and Technology
• Taxation and Finance

Subject Matter Details

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program

• Advertising to Children with regard to promoting industry's self regulatory measures under the children's advertising initiative.
• Pre-Market approvals for food additives, novel foods, infant formula, health claims and functional foods in regard to consulting with Health Canada on improving the process to deal with the backlog and new applications.

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation

• Competitiveness -to ensure that Canada's food and consumer manufacturing sector is competitive throughout the whole supply chain.
• Food safety - working with government to ensure Canada's food supply remains reliable and safe.
• Modernization of food regulations and legislation - advocate to ensure modernization efforts include improvements to the transparency and timeliness of food approvals for novel foods, infant formula, food additives and health claims.
• National Dialogue on Childhood Obesity with regard to demonstrating industry's ongoing committment to the health and wellness of Canadians.

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation

• Biotechnology - ensure that Canada's regulatory guidelines on on Genetic modification and labelling of food are based on scientific principles.
• Canada Consumer Product Safety Act - sharing industry perspectives with government.
• Food and Drug Regulations with regard to the Addition of Vitamins and Minerals to Food (Fortification)- Discretionary fortification will provide opportunities for product innovation in the food manufacturing industry.

Policies or Program

• "Product of Canada/Made in Canada" labelling rules. Advocate to ensure a common sense approach.
• Chemical Management Plan- priority substances batches with regard to chemicals present in food or food packaging
• Compositional standards for cheese and yogurt concerning the prohibition of ingredients with regards to how processors can produce cheese and yogurt in Canada. Monitoring impact on food processors.
• Food Allergen Precautionary Labelling. Working in consultation with Health Canada to provide input on how to manage precautionary labelling for allergens.
• Growing Forward 2 Consultations with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to ensure the interests of food processors are considered in the federal government's policies and programs.
• Nutrition Facts Education Campaign - implementation of program with Health Canada with regard to enabling consumers to make informed food choices.
• Nutrition information with regard to how FCPC is committed to enabling consumers to make informed food choices based on Canada's Food Guide and the Nutrition Facts Table.
• Participation and input into Canada's sodium reduction strategy concerning targets for certain food categories/ sectors and technical aspects of the target - as well as consumer awareness, education and acceptance issues.
• Trans fat reduction- working to meet levels in task force report and compliance monitoring by government

Policies or Program, Regulation

• Red Tape Reduction Commission - ensure that concerns with regulatory approvals for food and operational challenges are put forth.

Regulation

• Greenhouse gas regulations with regard to reporting requirements for industry
• Natural Health Products Regulations. Working in consultation with government on guidelines for industry and future approvals.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication
• Grass-roots communication
• CONSULTATIONS

Government Institutions

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
• Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT)
• Competition Bureau Canada (COBU)
• Environment Canada
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAITC)
• Health Canada (HC)
• House of Commons
• Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC)
• Industry Canada
• Justice Canada (JC)
• Members of the House of Commons
• Prime Minister's Office (PMO)
• Privy Council Office (PCO)
• Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
• Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC)
• Revenue Canada (RC)
• Senate of Canada
• Statistics Canada (StatCan)
• Treasury Board Of Canada Secretariat (TBS)

Address:
301 - 885 DON MILLS ROAD
DON MILLS, ON  M3C 1V9
Canada

Telephone number: 416-510-8024
Fax number: 416-510-8043