Food and Drug Regulations
Version of section B.06.002 from 2007-04-19 to 2024-08-18:
B.06.002 No person shall sell a food, other than a synthetic colour, mixture, preparation or flavouring preparation, that contains, when prepared for consumption according to label directions, more than
(a) 300 parts per million of Allura Red, Amaranth, Erythrosine, Indigotine, Sunset Yellow FCF or Tartrazine or any combination of those colours unless a higher maximum level of use is specified in column III of item 3 of Table III to section B.16.100;
(b) 100 parts per million of Fast Green FCF or Brilliant Blue FCF or any combination of those colours;
(c) 300 parts per million of any combination of the synthetic colours named in paragraphs (a) and (b) within the limits set by those paragraphs; or
(d) 150 parts per million of Ponceau SX.
- SOR/80-500, s. 2
- SOR/84-440, s. 2
- SOR/86-178, s. 1(F)
- SOR/2007-75, s. 1
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