Manufacturing · Food Processing · Cambridge, ON
Passing Their First CFIA IT Review Without a Scramble
A Cambridge food processor faced its first federal IT review with no documentation to show. Here's how we got them ready.
A scheduled CFIA review meant proving their systems tracking food safety records were backed up, access-controlled, and documented. None of that existed in a form an auditor would accept.
Records lived across a mix of spreadsheets and a server nobody had a current backup schedule for. A lost file wasn't just an inconvenience, it was a compliance risk.
Moved their records systems to monitored cloud infrastructure with automated, verified backups.
Locked down access so only the right people can view or change food safety records.
Documented the entire system in the format their compliance team needed for the review.
Ran a mock review internally two weeks before the real one, so nothing came as a surprise.
The plant passed its first CFIA IT review with complete documentation on the first request. Production never stopped during the rollout, and the compliance packet now gets reused for every audit since.
