Food and Drug Regulations

B.01.010.4 (1) If the label of a prepackaged product includes a declaration alerting consumers that, due to a risk of cross-contamination, the product may contain the source of a food allergen or gluten,

• (a) the declaration must appear immediately after

  • (i) the food allergen source, gluten source and added sulphites statement, if there is one,

  • (ii) any statement referred to in subsection B.01.014(1), if no food allergen source, gluten source and added sulphites statement appears on the label, or

  • (iii) the list of ingredients, if neither of the statements referred to in subparagraph (ii) appears on the label;

• (b) the declaration must appear in both English and French if the statement or list immediately preceding it appears in both languages;

• (c) the declaration must appear on the same continuous surface as the statement or list that immediately precedes it and be shown in the same manner as the list of ingredients is shown under subsection B.01.008.2(2);

• (d) the declaration must appear without any intervening printed, written or graphic material between it and the statement or list that immediately precedes it, except that a solid line may appear before the declaration if the declaration begins on a different line than the line on which the statement or list ends;

• (e) the declaration must be shown in bold type if it begins on the line on which the statement or list that immediately precedes it ends and if it is not introduced by a title;

• (f) any title that introduces the declaration must be shown in bold type if the declaration begins on the line on which the statement or list that immediately precedes it ends; and

• (g) if the declaration is preceded by a statement referred to in subsection B.01.014(1) and begins on the line on which the statement ends, the title of the declaration — or the declaration itself, if no title appears — must be shown in a type that is of a height that is at least 0.2 mm greater than the height of the type used in the statement.

(2) If the English and French versions of the declaration appear on the same continuous surface of the label, the version that follows the other version must not begin on the line on which the other version ends unless the prepackaged product has an available display surface of less than 100 cm².