The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA) is committed to protecting the privacy rights of individuals, including safeguarding the confidentiality of information provided by individuals and institutions. Submission of your personal information constitutes your consent to the collection, use, storage, and disclosure of your personal information by the CFIA. Please note that comments you enter in any free text field could become identifiable based on the level of detail you provide. Please exercise caution when providing comments in order to protect your privacy and the privacy of others. This information is being collected and used under this Agency's legislative authority for the following purpose: to grant credit privileges for clients doing ongoing business with the CFIA so that they can pay on a monthly basis when they receive their statement of account. This is in accordance with the Financial Administration Act. This information will be retained in accordance with the Agency's retention and disposition policies. The personal information collected appears in the standard personal information bank Accounts Receivable PSU 932. Details regarding this personal information bank, the information it contains, and the purpose for its collection are described within the Treasury Board Secretariat's Personal Information Banks. Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act, personal information collected by the CFIA and the Government of Canada is protected from disclosure to unauthorized persons and/or agencies. Individuals to whom the personal information pertains have the right to the protection of, and access to, their personal information under the Privacy Act, subject to certain exceptions and exemptions. For inquiries concerning the treatment of personal information in the custody of CFIA, or to access personal information pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act, individuals may contact the CFIA's Access to Information and Privacy Office at ATIP-CFIA-AIPRP@inspection.gc.ca (located at 1400 Merivale Road, Tower 1, Room 0-149 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0Y9).
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) fillable PDF forms have been tested for compatibility with Adobe Reader 10 and higher and may not be fully supported in other PDF viewers and on some mobile devices.
Also, note that many tablets/phones will not open these forms even with Adobe Reader. If you require an alternative version, please contact us.
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Many forms have a print button included. There may be more than 1 print button in some forms. Each of the print buttons is configured to print a specific page or range of pages. Using other commands to reach the print function is not recommended. If you have clicked a configured print button, do not alter the "Pages to Print" information.
When the Print Dialog box appears, you should see a section titled Page Sizing and Handling. We recommend that you select "Actual size" and ensure the checkbox for "Choose paper source by PDF page size" is selected. This allows the software to print the pages as they are designed to be printed.
In Adobe Reader you should see a coloured information bar directly above the form. On the coloured bar, there is a button labelled "Highlight Existing Fields". It is highly recommended that you press the button so that fields are highlighted. This will enable you to easily see where the data portion of fields is located. It will also add a coloured outline to mandatory fields.
When working through a form, we recommend that you tab from 1 field to the next to have the fullest benefit of the built-in functionality.
Dates – most date fields will have a date picker calendar associated to the field which is accessed from the drop down arrow or by pressing the keyboard arrow keys. To quickly choose dates that are not in the current calendar, you may click the month and year headings.
You may also type the date into date fields; you do not need to type the dashes between the date components. Date fields in most forms are formatted to YYYY-MM-DD.
Many forms include helpful advice in "hover help". In order to view the help, you must hover your mouse over the field until it displays. It will not display very long, so you may need to move your mouse away from the field and then hover again to redisplay the help. If the help is complex, it will also be displayed in text format within the form.
Drop down lists – where possible we have developed our lists in alphabetical order and uppercase letters. To access the list begin typing in uppercase letters. You may also access the list with the keyboard arrow keys.
Note: Not all Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) forms accept digital signatures at this time.
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Some forms contain a button which permits you to send the form by email. The form is sent using whatever email service or software you have configured on your computer. If you are using a web mail service (vs. email client software) and have not configured your email service to function with "mail to" links, the button may not function. You may save your file, and send the file as an attachment using whatever functionality your computer configuration and email provider supplies.
Note: do not email forms which contain credit card information.