Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Consumer prepackaged food

• 229 (1) In the case of the label of a consumer prepackaged food, the following must be shown in characters of at least the minimum character height that is set out in column 2 of Schedule 6 for the area of a principal display surface that is set out in column 1:

  • (a) the numerical quantity in the declaration of net quantity; and

  • (b) the statement referred to in section 224 that indicates that a flavouring ingredient is imitation, artificial or simulated.

• Marginal note:Container mounted on display card — specific case

  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), in the case of a container that is mounted on a display card, the reference to “Area of Principal Display Surface” in Schedule 6 must be read as “Total Area of the Surface of the Display Card that is Displayed or Visible under Customary Conditions of Sale or Use”, if the information is shown on a label that is applied to all or part of that surface.

• Marginal note:Consumer prepackaged wine — specific case

  (3) Despite paragraph (1)(a), in the case of consumer prepackaged wine, the numerical quantity in the declaration of net quantity may, if the net quantity is 750 mL, the container is no taller than 360 mm and the area of the principal display surface is greater than 258 cm², be shown in characters of a height less than the minimum character height that is set out in column 2 of Schedule 6, but must be shown in characters that are at least 3.3 mm in height.