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Food and Drug Regulations

Version of section B.01.102 from 2006-03-22 to 2022-06-20:

  •  (1) The common name of an extended meat product or an extended poultry product shall be the common name of the meat product or poultry product that is extended, modified by the common name of each of the foods that are sources of protein in the extended meat product or extended poultry product.

  • (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1),

    • (a) the word or words “meat”, “meat product”, “poultry”, “poultry meat” or “poultry meat by-product” as the case may be, may be used in the common name of an extended meat product or extended poultry product as the common name of the food therein that is a source of protein derived from a meat product or poultry product; and

    • (b) where it is an acceptable manufacturing practice for a manufacturer to omit from his meat product extender or poultry product extender any source of protein derived from a plant that is ordinarily an ingredient of that meat product extender or poultry product extender, or to substitute in whole or in part in his meat product extender or poultry product extender any source of protein derived from a plant for a source of protein that is ordinarily an ingredient of that meat product extender or poultry product extender, the word “plant” may be used in the common name of an extended meat product or extended poultry product as the common name of the food therein that is a source of protein derived from a plant.

  • (3) Foods that are a source of protein in an extended meat product or extended poultry product shall be shown by their common names in the common name of that product

    • (a) in descending order of their proportion of that product; and

    • (b) in letters of at least the same size and prominence as those used in the remainder of the common name of that product.

  • (4) Where an extended meat product or extended poultry product is not a prepackaged product, the common name of that product and the information required by this section to be shown on the label of an extended meat product or extended poultry product shall be shown on a sign displayed on or adjacent to that product in letters that are legible and conspicuous to a prospective purchaser.

  • (5) to (7) [Repealed, SOR/88-559, s. 13]

  • SOR/84-300, s. 9
  • SOR/88-559, s. 13

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