Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Prepackaged fish

• 262 (1) The label of prepackaged fish must bear

  • (a) in the case of bivalve molluscs in the shell that are not in a hermetically sealed package, the date of processing and an expression, code or identifier that indicates the area from which they were harvested; and

  • (b) in the case of tuna that is in a hermetically sealed package, one of the expressions to describe the applicable colour of the fish flesh based on the indicated condition as set out in the Descriptive Words, Expressions and Identification Names Document.

• Marginal note:Prepackaged salted fish

  (2) In the case of prepackaged salted fish, if the label bears one of the expressions set out in the Descriptive Words, Expressions and Identification Names Document to describe the salted fish, the applicable salt or moisture content after salting is complete as indicated for that expression must be met.