Obtain your Safe Food for Canadians (SFC) License from CFIA. Expert assistance with license applications, Preventive Control Plans, import/export licensing, and SFCR compliance.
New York City has one of the largest and most diverse food economies in the world, spanning ethnic food manufacturing, kosher and halal certification, importers, and food service operators.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
When you engage Iyarkai for SFC License support in New York, 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 New York's trusted partner for safe food for canadians (sfc) license. As the world's most dynamic food market, New York 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 New York facility. Whether you need to develop your first safe food for canadians (sfc) license or strengthen an existing program ahead of a regulatory inspection or retailer audit, Iyarkai delivers measurable results.
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Contact Us TodaySafe Food for Canadians licensing enters New York through the export corridor to Canada — the nearest major foreign market for the city's specialty, kosher, and ethnic manufacturers. Most rely on a Canadian customer's import licence, but the SFCR's non-resident importer provision lets a US company hold its own Canadian import licence, an attractive structure for New York brands that want to sell direct to Canadian retail without surrendering channel control to a distributor.
A fixed place of business in the United States (qualifying because Canada recognizes the US food safety system), an SFCR-compliant Preventive Control Plan, traceability records one step forward into Canada, a recall plan executable across the border, and My CFIA registration. It effectively makes you your own Canadian importer — with all the obligations your distributor used to shoulder.
The SFCR's written-PCP exemption for businesses with gross annual food sales of $100,000 or less applies to qualifying licence holders, but it removes only the written-plan requirement — hazard control, traceability, and licensing obligations remain. Most exporters exceed the threshold quickly anyway, and Canadian customers often want a written plan regardless. We advise building it once, properly.
Application support for a federal SFC licence, mandatory for federally-regulated processors, importers, and exporters under the SFCR.
4 to 8 weeks for application preparation; CFIA processing times vary.
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