Proud supplier of quality meats to
Manitoba Moose Hockey Club
and MTS Centre
Proudly Manitoban, like our Moose.
Smith’s Quality Meats is registered with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency as Federally Inspected Establishment #294. Meat from federally inspected establishments is eligible to be shipped worldwide. The federal standards set in Canadian meat plants are equal to, or higher than, standards set anywhere in the world.
Canada prides itself on its federally inspected food products as some of the safest in the world. Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (H.A.C.C.P.), considered to be the best operations guide available for producing the safest food possible, is mandatory in all federally inspected meat plants in Canada.
The H.A.C.C.P. food manufacturing control program was originally developed by Pillsbury Foods in the 1960s to ensure the manufacture of safe and wholesome foods for the NASA space program.
H.A.C.C.P. identifies a set of manufacturing controls that monitors every aspect of a food manufacturing establishment from the environment outside and surrounding the plant to every corner and process inside the building. Nothing is overlooked or left to chance. Every potential hazard is assessed and safeguards are implemented to control or eliminate those hazards before they can impact food safety. Safeguards are monitored and verified as effective and must be scientifically proven.
H.A.C.C.P. is not inexpensive or easy to administer, but is one of the requirements of being a federally inspected meat plant in Canada and the U.S.A. For now, it has been chosen as the best tool available for the control of preventable food borne illness – food contamination. Some of the costs of H.A.C.C.P. are passed along to customers but much of the cost is borne by the food processor or manufacturer. As a result of this,some federal plants have elected to drop their federal license and produce only provincially inspected food. Provincial inspection is in no way comparable to federal inspection, and many large chain stores insist on purchasing only federally inspected meat products.
Federally inspected food products are designated by a circle with the picture of a crown inside and a number under the crown. This crown will appear somewhere on the main panel of any federally inspected food product. Consumers who demand high quality, federally inspected products, should look for the crown symbol on the food package. All Smith's products carry this symbol.