Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Application for exemption — test marketing or shortage in supply

• 174 (1) Any person may apply, in a form approved by the President, for an exemption from the application of a provision of the Act or these Regulations for the purpose of test marketing a food or of alleviating a shortage in Canada in the available supply of a food that is manufactured, processed or produced in Canada.

• Marginal note:Exemption

  (2) The Minister may, in writing, grant the exemption if

  • (a) the information submitted in the application for the exemption is complete, truthful and not misleading;

  • (b) the food in respect of which the application for the exemption is made meets the requirements that are set out in paragraphs 8(1)(a) to (d);

  • (c) the Minister is of the opinion that no risk of injury to human health will result;

  • (d) in the case of an application for an exemption for the purpose of test marketing a food, the Minister is of the opinion that the exemption will not

    • (i) confuse or mislead the public, or

    • (ii) disrupt the normal trading patterns of the industry or the normal food pricing patterns; and

  • (e) in the case of an application for an exemption for the purpose of alleviating a shortage in Canada in the available supply of a food that is manufactured, processed or produced in Canada, the exemption is necessary to alleviate that shortage.