Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Size corresponding to net quantity

• 188 (1) The container of a prepackaged food, including a hermetically sealed food container listed in the Standard Container Sizes Document, must be of a size that corresponds to a net quantity by weight or volume or of a maximum capacity by net weight, as the case may be, that is set out in that document and, if the hermetically sealed container is made of metal, it must be of the dimensions that correspond to the net quantity by volume that is set out in that document.

• Marginal note:Exception — catch-weight foods

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of a consumer prepackaged catch-weight food if a label that bears the net weight for retail sale is applied or attached to the food.

• Marginal note:Exception — consumer prepackaged foods

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of a consumer prepackaged food that is

  • (a) manufactured, prepared, produced, packaged or labelled for use by commercial or industrial enterprises or institutions without being sold by them as a consumer prepackaged food;

  • (b) manufactured, prepared, produced, packaged or labelled only for sale to or by a duty-free shop; or

  • (c) distributed to one or more persons for no consideration.