Food and Drug Regulations (C.R.C., c. 870)
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Regulations are current to 2021-02-15 and last amended on 2020-09-28. Previous Versions
PART BFoods (continued)
DIVISION 1 (continued)
General (continued)
B.01.008.3 (1) If a prepackaged product contains one or more sugars-based ingredients, despite the order of presentation referred to in paragraph B.01.008.2(3)(a), the sugars-based ingredient or ingredients shall be shown in the list of ingredients, in parentheses, immediately following the term
(2) The term “Sugars” referred to in subsection (1) shall be shown in the list of ingredients
(a) in descending order of the proportion of all the sugars-based ingredients in the prepackaged product or as a percentage of the prepackaged product, and the order or percentage shall be the order or percentage of all the sugars-based ingredients before they are combined to form the product; and
(b) separated from other ingredients by a bullet point or a comma.
(3) Each sugars-based ingredient mentioned immediately following the term “Sugars” shall be shown,
(4) Subsections (1) to (3) do not apply to the following prepackaged products:
(a) a sweetening agent;
(b) fruit or vegetable juice or vegetable drink that does not contain any sweetening agent, as well as any mixture of those juices and drinks, including any of those juices and drinks
(c) fruit or vegetable purée that does not contain any sweetening agent as well as any mixture of those purées;
(d) prepackaged products that contain only one sugars-based ingredient that contains the word “sugar” in its common name; and
(e) human milk substitutes and formulated liquid diets.
- SOR/2016-305, s. 5
B.01.009 (1) Components of ingredients or of classes of ingredients set out in the following table are not required to be shown on a label:
TABLE
Item Ingredient 1 butter 2 margarine 3 shortening 4 lard 5 leaf lard 6 monoglycerides 7 diglycerides 8 rice 9 starches or modified starches 10 breads subject to compositional standards in sections B.13.021 to B.13.029 11 flour 12 soy flour 13 graham flour 14 whole wheat flour 15 baking powder 16 milks subject to compositional standards in sections B.08.003 to B.08.027 17 chewing gumbase 18 sweetening agents subject to compositional standards in sections B.18.001 to B.18.018 19 cocoa, low-fat cocoa 20 salt 21 vinegars subject to compositional standards in sections B.19.003 to B.19.007 22 Bourbon whisky and alcoholic beverages subject to compositional standards in sections B.02.001 to B.02.134 23 cheese for which a standard is prescribed in Division 8, if the total amount of cheese in a prepackaged product is less than 10 per cent of that packaged product 24 jams, marmalades and jellies subject to compositional standards in sections B.11.201 to B.11.241 when the total amount of those ingredients is less than 5 per cent of a prepackaged product 25 olives, pickles, relish and horse-radish when the total amount of those ingredients is less than 10 per cent of a prepackaged product 26 one or more vegetable or animal fats or oils for which a standard is prescribed in Division 9, and hydrogenated, modified or interesterified vegetable or animal fats or oils, if the total of those fats and oils as are contained in a prepackaged product is less than 15 per cent of that prepackaged product 27 prepared or preserved meat, fish, poultry meat, meat by-product or poultry by-product when the total amount of those ingredients is less than 10 per cent of a prepackaged product that consists of an unstandardized food 28 alimentary paste that does not contain egg in any form or any flour other than wheat flour 29 bacterial culture 30 hydrolyzed plant protein 31 carbonated water 32 whey, whey powder, concentrated whey, whey butter and whey butter oil 33 mould culture 34 chlorinated water and fluorinated water 35 gelatin 36 toasted wheat crumbs used in or as a binder, filler or breading in or on a food product (2) Subject to subsection (3), where a preparation or mixture set out in the table to this subsection is added to a food, the ingredients and components of the preparation or mixture are not required to be shown on the label of that food.
TABLE
Item Preparation/Mixture 1 food colour preparations 2 flavouring preparations 3 artificial flavouring preparations 4 spice mixtures 5 seasoning or herb mixtures 6 vitamin preparations 7 mineral preparations 8 food additive preparations 9 rennet preparations 10 food flavour-enhancer preparations 11 compressed, dry, active or instant yeast preparations (3) Where a preparation or mixture set out in the table to subsection (2) is added to a food, and the preparation or mixture contains one or more of the following ingredients or components, those ingredients or components shall be shown by their common names in the list of the ingredients of the food to which they are added as if they were ingredients of that food:
(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), where any of the following components is contained in an ingredient set out in the tables to those subsections, that component shall be shown in the list of ingredients:
(5) [Repealed, SOR/2011-28, s. 2]
- SOR/78-728, s. 1
- SOR/79-23, s. 6
- SOR/79-662, s. 1
- SOR/88-559, s. 4
- SOR/92-626, s. 8
- SOR/93-145, s. 2
- SOR/93-465, s. 1
- SOR/95-548, s. 5(F)
- SOR/97-263, s. 1
- SOR/2000-417, s. 1
- SOR/2010-143, s. 39(E)
- SOR/2011-28, s. 2
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