NOVA SCOTIA: Chicken farmers unite in food safety - (Canada News-Wire)
August 13, 2008 – 12:33 amHALIFAX — Canadian chicken boards from coast to coast signed a landmark agreement today, committing to the ongoing implementation and maintenance of a national on-farm food safety program.
The program, called Safe, Safer, Safest, has been in place for nearly a decade and is practiced on Canadian chicken farms across the country. Today’s signing reaffirms the provincial chicken boards’ commitment to the system, which involves extensive record keeping, on-farm audits and certification services for all Canadian chicken farmers.
Safe, Safer, Safest guides chicken farmers on safe food production practices, from cleaning the barn in preparation for the next flock through to shipment of market-weight birds. It was developed in 1998 with support from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and was the first national farmer organization program to complete Phase 1 of the Federal-Provincial-Territorial government’s technical review process, led by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
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