Agri-Food Choice and Quality Act ([SBC 2000] Chapter 20).

The Lieutenant Governor in Council may establish programmes to enable persons engaged in farming, harvesting, producing, processing, manufacturing, preparing, packaging, handling or selling practices related to an agri-food product, at their option, a) to have their agri-food product or their practices certified as meeting prescribed quality or prescribed practice standards and to receive a certificate as evidence that those standards have been met, and b) if they hold a certificate, to describe, identify, label, advertise or market the agri-food product as meeting prescribed quality standards or as having been farmed, harvested, produced, processed, manufactured, prepared, packaged, handled or sold in accordance with the prescribed practice standards. However, a person who holds a certificate must, at any reasonable time: a) allow an inspector or an auditor to inspect all parts of the person's operation, to take samples of an agri-food product and to test or cause to be tested any samples, and b) on an inspector's or auditor's request, make available for inspection all records required to be maintained under the regulations. The text consists of 13 articles divided into 3 Parts as follows: Agri-Food Quality Programmes (1); Agri-Food Quality Programme Inspections (2); General (3).