Develop a compliant Preventive Control Plan (PCP) as required by CFIA under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations. Expert PCP writing, review, and implementation support.
Montreal's food sector is one of the most diverse in North America, including kosher, halal, ethnic, dairy, and craft food producers, with provincial MAPAQ oversight on top of federal CFIA requirements.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ)
Direction régionale de santé publique de Montréal
When you engage Iyarkai for pcp support in Montreal, 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 Montreal's trusted partner for preventive control plan (pcp). As Quebec's vibrant metropolitan food hub, Montreal 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 Montreal facility. Whether you need to develop your first preventive control plan (pcp) or strengthen an existing program ahead of a regulatory inspection or retailer audit, Iyarkai delivers measurable results.
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Contact Us TodayA Preventive Control Plan is the SFCR's central document, and for Montreal's federally licensed processors and importers it has to be written for real use — which in this city often means French for the production floor, with the hazard analysis reflecting Montreal's actual product mix of dairy, bakery, cured meats, and imported specialty foods. CFIA verifies PCPs against implementation, not eloquence: inspectors sample your monitoring records, trace a lot through your system, and check that the recall procedure has actually been tested.
Businesses holding an SFC licence — importers, exporters, and those trading interprovincially — generally need a written PCP, with an exemption for certain businesses whose gross annual food sales are $100,000 or less (the hazards must still be controlled; only the written-plan requirement is relaxed). Purely intra-Quebec businesses fall under MAPAQ instead, though many adopt PCP structure for customer credibility.
By testing it against reality: inspectors select products and trace them one step forward and back within the required timeframe, pull monitoring and corrective-action records for the control measures your plan claims, interview the staff performing them, and review your recall simulation results. A plan that reads well but doesn't match floor practice generates findings faster than having no plan at all — we verify implementation before CFIA does.
Federal-grade Preventive Control Plan required under Canada's Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR) for licensed processors and importers.
6 to 12 weeks for a complete PCP suitable for SFCR-licensed facilities.
CFIA / SFCR