Navigate Canadian food import licensing, SFCR importer requirements, foreign supplier verification, Safe Food for Canadians License for importers, and US FSVP compliance.
London, Ontario is at the heart of southwestern Ontario's agri-food belt, with significant grain processing, baking, and food packaging operations.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA)
Middlesex-London Health Unit
When you engage Iyarkai for Importer support in London, Ontario, we map every requirement back to the specific regulator most likely to inspect or audit your facility — so you spend less time guessing and more time building a compliant operation.
Iyarkai Scientific Consultation is London's trusted partner for food importer compliance. As a major food-industry centre in southwestern Ontario, London is home to a growing number of food manufacturers, processors, importers, and exporters who rely on expert food safety compliance to access domestic and international markets. Our experienced consultants bring hands-on regulatory knowledge - including CFIA, SFCR, FDA FSMA, and leading GFSI certification schemes - directly to your London facility. Whether you need to develop your first food importer compliance or strengthen an existing program ahead of a regulatory inspection or retailer audit, Iyarkai delivers measurable results.
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Contact Us TodayImporter compliance in London, Ontario reflects the city's position as southwestern Ontario's distribution anchor: regional food distributors and manufacturers here import ingredients and finished goods — often trucked through the Windsor-Detroit and Sarnia crossings — which puts them squarely under SFCR import licensing, preventive controls with foreign supplier verification, and bilingual labelling obligations. CFIA's import oversight focuses on whether the verification file behind each foreign supplier actually exists.
Generally yes: importing food for commercial use, including as ingredients for further manufacturing, requires an SFC licence covering import activity, plus a PCP addressing hazards in the imported foods and supplier verification for each source. Companies often hold a licence for manufacturing but never added the import activity to its scope — an easy fix before CFIA notices, an awkward one after. We audit your licence scope against your actual supply chain.
Evidence proportional to risk that the supplier controls the hazards in the food: their FDA registration status, hazard analysis or food safety plan summary, GFSI or third-party audit certificates, product specifications, and periodic certificates of analysis for hazard-relevant parameters. US origin doesn't exempt anything — SFCR treats all foreign suppliers alike. We build per-supplier files with review cycles so the evidence stays current, not archived.
End-to-end compliance for food importers — covering SFCR import licensing, foreign supplier verification, PCP, and labelling.
4 to 10 weeks depending on import scope and origin countries.
CFIA / SFCR / FDA FSVP