§ 172

(1) The Minister must suspend the recognition of a foreign state’s inspection system that is referred to in section 170 if (a) the foreign state fails to notify the Minister in writing, as soon as feasible, of any changes that it has made to the system or to the legislation governing the system; or (b) the system no longer provides at least the same level of protection as that provided by the provisions of the Act and these Regulations.

(2) The Minister must suspend the recognition of a system of manufacturing, processing, treating, preserving, handling, testing, grading, coding, slaughtering, storing, packaging or labelling that is referred to in section 171 if (a) the system no longer meets the foreign state’s requirements that apply to those activities; (b) a shipment of meat products that have been manufactured, processed, treated, preserved, handled, tested, graded, coded, stored, packaged or labelled using the system is determined to contravene a provision of the Act, these Regulations, the Food and Drugs Act or the Food and Drug Regulations, and (i) during the six-month period immediately prior to that shipment, there have been two other shipments of meat products that have been manufactured, processed, treated, preserved, handled, tested, graded, coded, stored, packaged or labelled using the system in respect of which such a determination of non-compliance has been made, or (ii) among the four most recent shipments, prior to that shipment, of meat products that have been manufactured, processed, treated, preserved, handled, tested, graded, coded, stored, packaged or labelled using the system, two shipments have been determined to be non-compliant; (c) the system is no longer subject to the foreign state’s inspection system; or (d) the recognition of the foreign state’s inspection system to which the system is subject has been suspended.

(3) The Minister must notify the foreign state in writing of the suspension under subsection (1) or (2), the grounds for the suspension and the date on which it takes effect.

(4) The suspension takes effect on the day on which the notice is issued.

(5) The Minister must notify the foreign state in writing that the recognition is no longer suspended if (a) in the case of a suspension under subsection (1) or under paragraph (2)(a), (c) or (d), the circumstances that gave rise to a suspension have been remedied; or (b) in the case of a suspension under paragraph (2)(b), the establishment has taken corrective action.