On May 12, 2022, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has released the 2020-2021 food fraud annual report, summarizes its main content to strengthen surveillance activities as a result, to test the truth of five categories of food: honey, fish, olive oil and other expensive oil (such as sesame oil, grape seed oil, coconut oil) and spices.  

Overall, CFIA tests showed a satisfactory result of more than 87% for four of the five categories, compared with the satisfactory result of 66% for expensive oils (except olive oil).  These five food categories were chosen because they are commonly reported as products that can be mislabeled.  

In the event of unsatisfactory results, the CFIA will take corrective or enforcement action, including withdrawal from Canada, detention, destruction or relabeling of the product.  

The results of CFIA's work are used to inform future sampling and inspection strategies to better target foods that are more likely to be mislabeled.