Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Prepackaged dairy products

246 The principal display panel of a prepackaged dairy product must bear

• (a) in the case of butter, calorie-reduced butter, light butter or lite butter, dairy spread and whey butter, the following words or expressions:

  • (i) “Cultured” or “de culture”, preceding the common name in English or following the common name in French, if the dairy product has been prepared from cream to which a bacterial culture has been added,

  • (ii) “Whipped” or “fouetté”, preceding the common name in English or following the common name in French, if the dairy product has had air or inert gas uniformly incorporated into it as a result of whipping,

  • (iii) “Unsalted” or “non salé”, in close proximity to the common name, if the dairy product is unsalted and has not been cultured, and

  • (iv) “Salted” or “salé”, in close proximity to the common name, if the dairy product is salted and has been cultured;

• (b) in the case of a combination of skim milk powder and whey powder, the percentage of each powder;

• (c) in the case of partly skimmed milk powder, dairy spread and calorie-reduced butter, the percentage of milk fat; and

• (d) in all cases, a declaration of net quantity that is

  • (i) in metric units or Canadian units, or both, in which case the units must be grouped together, if a standard is set out in Volume 1 of the Standards of Identity Document for the dairy product, or

  • (ii) in metric units, if no standard is set out in Volume 1 of the Standards of Identity Document for the dairy product.