Food and Drug Regulations (C.R.C., c. 870)

Regulations are current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2013-03-21. Previous Versions

B.18.006. [S]. Icing Sugar

  • (a) shall be powdered sugar; and

  • (b) may contain

    • (i) food colour, and

    • (ii) either not more than five per cent starch or an anticaking agent.

B.18.007. [S]. Brown Sugar, Yellow Sugar or Golden Sugar

  • (a) shall be the food obtained from the syrups originating in the sugar refining process;

  • (b) may contain not more than

    • (i) 4.5 per cent moisture, and

    • (ii) 3.5 per cent sulphate ash; and

  • (c) shall not contain less than 90 per cent sugar and invert sugar.

B.18.008. [S]. Refined Sugar Syrup, Refiners’ Syrup or Golden Syrup

  • (a) shall be the food made from syrup originating in the sugar refining process;

  • (b) may be hydrolyzed; and

  • (c) shall not contain more than

    • (i) 35 per cent moisture, and

    • (ii) 2.5 per cent sulphated ash.

B.18.009. [S]. Fancy Molasses

  • (a) shall be the syrupy food obtained by the evaporation and partial inversion of the clarified or unclarified sugar cane juice from which sugar has not been previously extracted;

  • (b) may contain sulphurous acid or its salts; and

  • (c) shall not contain more than

    • (i) 25 per cent moisture, and

    • (ii) 3 per cent sulphated ash.

B.18.010. [S]. Table Molasses

  • (a) shall be the liquid food obtained in the process of manufacturing raw or refined sugar;

  • (b) may contain sulphurous acid or its salts;

  • (c) shall not contain more than

    • (i) 25 per cent moisture, and

    • (ii) 3 per cent sulphated ash.

B.18.011. [S]. Refiners’ Molasses, Blackstrap Molasses or Cooking Molasses

  • (a) shall be the residual liquid food obtained in the process of manufacturing raw or refined sugar;

  • (b) may contain sulphurous acid or its salts;

  • (c) shall not contain more than

    • (i) 25 per cent moisture, and

    • (ii) 12 per cent sulphated ash.

  • B.18.015. [S]. (1) Dextrose Anhydrous, for the purpose of Part B of these Regulations

    • (a) shall be the food chemically known as dextrose;

    • (b) shall contain not less than 99.5 per cent D-glucose on a dry basis;

    • (c) shall contain not more than 0.25 per cent sulphated ash on a dry basis;

    • (d) shall contain not less than 98 per cent total solids; and

    • (e) may contain sulphurous acid or its salts.

  • (2) Dextrose Monohydrate, for the purpose of Part B of these Regulations

    • (a) shall be the food chemically known as dextrose;

    • (b) shall contain not less than 99.5 per cent D-glucose on a dry basis;

    • (c) shall contain not more than 0.25 per cent sulphated ash on a dry basis;

    • (d) shall contain not less than 90 per cent total solids; and

    • (e) may contain sulphurous acid or its salts.

  • SOR/84-300, s. 51.