Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SOR/2018-108)

Marginal note:Exception — meat products

25 Subparagraph 7(2)(a)(ii), subsection 28(2), paragraph 29(1)(d), subsection 31(2), section 42, paragraph 46(1)(b) and sections 69, 167, 168 and 296 do not apply in respect of

• (a) meat products — other than those set out in column 1 of Part A of Table 2 to Volume 7 of the Standards of Identity Document — that are a mixture of a ready-to-eat meat product and a food other than a meat product, if

  • (i) the ready-to-eat meat product that is contained in the mixture was manufactured, processed, treated, preserved, packaged or labelled in Canada by a licence holder in accordance with the provisions of the Act and these Regulations,

  • (ii) the ready-to-eat meat product that is contained in the mixture is derived from a livestock carcass or poultry carcass that has been graded in Canada by a grader in accordance with these Regulations,

  • (iii) the ready-to-eat meat product that is contained in the mixture has been imported by a licence holder in accordance with the provisions of the Act and these Regulations, or

  • (iv) the mixture is imported and

    • (A) the foreign state in which the mixture is manufactured, prepared, stored, packaged or labelled, as the case may be, has, at the time the activity is conducted, an inspection system for meat products that is recognized under Part 7,

    • (B) the foreign state from which the mixture is imported has, at the time of the import, an inspection system for meat products that is recognized under Part 7,

    • (C) the establishment where the food animal from which the ready-to-eat meat product that is contained in the mixture is derived was slaughtered, and any establishment where that meat product was manufactured, processed, treated, preserved, handled, tested, graded, coded, stored, packaged or labelled, have, at the time that the activity is conducted and at the time of the import, a system for manufacturing, processing, treating, preserving, handling, testing, grading, coding, slaughtering, storing, packaging or labelling, as the case may be, that is recognized under Part 7, and

    • (D) the holder of the licence to import provides an inspector with an official document issued by the foreign state, in a form approved by the President, that states that the ready-to-eat meat product that is contained in the mixture meets the requirements that are set out in the Act and these Regulations; and

• (b) broth, lard, leaf lard, tallow or other rendered fat, suet, shortening, flavour or extract if

  • (i) the meat product from which the broth, lard, leaf lard, tallow or other rendered fat, suet, shortening, flavour or extract is derived was manufactured, processed, treated, preserved, packaged or labelled in Canada by a licence holder in accordance with the provisions of the Act and these Regulations,

  • (ii) the meat product from which the broth, lard, leaf lard, tallow or other rendered fat, suet, shortening, flavour or extract is derived is a livestock carcass or a poultry carcass that has been graded in Canada by a grader in accordance with these Regulations,

  • (iii) the meat product from which the broth, lard, leaf lard, tallow or other rendered fat, suet, shortening, flavour or extract is derived has been imported by a licence holder in accordance with the provisions of the Act and these Regulations, or

  • (iv) the broth, lard, leaf lard, tallow or other rendered fat, suet, shortening, flavour or extract is imported and

    • (A) the foreign state in which the broth, lard, leaf lard, tallow or other rendered fat, suet, shortening, flavour or extract is manufactured, prepared, stored, packaged or labelled, as the case may be, has, at the time the activity is conducted, an inspection system for meat products that is recognized under Part 7,

    • (B) the foreign state from which the broth, lard, leaf lard, tallow or other rendered fat, suet, shortening, flavour or extract is imported has, at the time of the import, an inspection system for meat products that is recognized under Part 7,

    • (C) the establishment where the food animal from which the meat product from which the broth, lard, leaf lard, tallow or other rendered fat, suet, shortening, flavour or extract is derived was slaughtered, and any establishment where the meat product was manufactured, processed, treated, preserved, handled, tested, graded, coded, stored, packaged or labelled, have, at the time that the activity is conducted and at the time of the import, a system for manufacturing, processing, treating, preserving, handling, testing, grading, coding, slaughtering, storing, packaging or labelling, as the case may be, that is recognized under Part 7, and

    • (D) the holder of the licence to import keeps a document that substantiates that the conditions set out in clauses (A) to (C) are met.