Food and Drug Regulations
B.01.010.3 (1) If a “Contains” statement is included on the label of a prepackaged product under any of subsections B.01.010.1(2), B.01.010.1(9), B.01.010.2(3) or B.01.010.2(9), that statement must
(a) appear after the list of ingredients for the product, if any, without any intervening printed, written or graphic material; and
(b) include all of the following information, even if all or part of that information is also shown in the list of ingredients for the product:
(i) the source for each food allergen that is present in the product,
(ii) each source for the gluten that is present in the product, and
(iii) one of the common names “sulfites”, “sulfiting agents”, “sulphites” or “sulphiting agents”, if the total amount of sulphites present in the product is 10 parts per million or more.
(2) Despite paragraph (1)(b), the following information is not required to be shown in the statement more than once:
(a) the same source of a food allergen;
(b) the same source of gluten; and
(c) one of the common names “sulfites”, “sulfiting agents”, “sulphites” or “sulphiting agents”.
- SOR/2011-28, s. 4
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