The present Act provides for licensing and regulation on buying, selling, handling, storing and processing of fish, shellfish and aquatic plants. Key measures related to sustainability and consumer confidence include: 1) Enabling the creation of a seafood traceability system to ensure seafood processed in British Columbia is both safe and legally caught, cultured, bought and sold. The system will ensure that seafood products are responsibly produced and harvested, and can be traced from the processor to the consumer; 2) Prohibiting the possession of illegally caught, cultured, harvested or processed seafood products, and the unlicensed sale of fish, ensuring only sustainably harvested and safely handled seafood products enter the food chain. Furthermore, the Act also increases inspection and enforcement by: 1) Granting inspectors the authority to make orders, including orders for seizure and destruction of contaminated food, and recall orders if unsafe food has been distributed; 2) Requiring licence holders to record all transactions including species, size, weight and source to support traceability and food safety requirements; 3) Requiring operators to ensure staff are properly trained to comply with all standards; 4) Modernizing outdated inspection powers, with penalties for offences like failure to ensure safe food, and possession and distribution of restricted fish and aquatic plants. The text consists of 75 sections divided into 7 Parts as follows: Definitions and applications (1); General prohibition (2); Licensing and duties of operators (3); Enforcement (4); Ministerial powers (5); Contravention (6); Regulations making powers (7); Transitional provision, Repeals and Consequential amendments (8).
加拿大 · 2015-05-14