SFCR Canada Traceability, Captured Automatically as You Work

SFCR food traceability software helps food businesses comply with Canada's Safe Food for Canadians Regulations by identifying SFCR-covered items, recording Critical Tracking Events as goods are received, transferred, and shipped, storing a written Preventive Control Plan, and producing the records CFIA can request. Biznsbook captures most of these events automatically as part of normal operations.

The Safe Food for Canadians Regulations are administered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). They require licensed food businesses to maintain traceability records that let them trace product one step back to their supplier and one step forward to their customer, and to keep a written Preventive Control Plan describing how food safety hazards are controlled.

One-up, one-down traceability means tracing a lot one step back to the supplier and one step forward to the customer. Biznsbook records receiving, shipping, and transfer Critical Tracking Events with traceability lot codes so each covered lot can be traced in both directions.

A Preventive Control Plan is the written document SFCR requires describing your hazards and controls. Biznsbook stores a versioned PCP with the CFIA licence number, hazard analysis, preventive control measures, and optional sanitation, pest control, allergen control, and traceability procedures, plus a document upload. Activating a new version archives the previous one.

Once you flag an item as SFCR-covered, Biznsbook records Critical Tracking Events as part of your normal workflow — a Receiving CTE when you post a GRN, a Shipping CTE when you sell or ship, and paired Shipping/Receiving CTEs on transfers. Each event is tagged with its regulatory source, and non-covered items are never burdened with extra data entry.

Yes. Biznsbook generates a CFIA Electronic Sortable Spreadsheet (ESS) on demand for a date range, or you can queue it from the CFIA Export Portal where it is produced in the background and downloaded when ready. The export uses a 16-column CFIA schema including traceability lot code, product description, quantity, CTE type, event date and time, location, both parties' CFIA licence numbers, country of origin, and CFIA product category.

No. Biznsbook stores Critical Tracking Events with a regulatory-source tag, so SFCR events never appear in the FDA Electronic Sortable Spreadsheet and FDA events never appear in the CFIA export. An item can be both FDA FTL and SFCR-covered, in which case a receipt records one FSMA CTE and one SFCR CTE independently.

Supplier CFIA licence numbers and a CFIA-establishment-registered flag are captured on the supplier party record. These feed the trading-partner columns of the CFIA Electronic Sortable Spreadsheet so receiving and shipping events show the right licence on each side.

Biznsbook retains SFCR traceability records for 24 months. A daily scan raises an in-app warning as records approach the end of the retention window so you can export or archive them — records are never deleted automatically.

SFCR Canada is a compliance module that activates inside your Biznsbook ERP and shares the same items, batches, suppliers, GRNs, and sales — reusing the proven FSMA 204 traceability engine. Talk to sales to enable it for your account.