Cannabis Regulations

Marginal note:List of ingredients – cannabis topical

• 132.17 (1) The list of ingredients of a cannabis topical — or of a cannabis accessory that contains a cannabis topical — must meet the following requirements:

  • (a) the word “Ingredients” in the English version and the word “Ingrédients” in the French version must appear at the beginning of the list;

  • (b) no intervening printed, written or graphic material is to appear between the term referred to in paragraph (a) and the first ingredient in the list; and

  • (c) the ingredients are to be separated from other ingredients by a comma and shown in descending order of their proportion of the cannabis topical by weight, determined before the ingredients are combined to form the cannabis topical, as follows:

    • (i) by their INCI name,

    • (ii) if an ingredient has no INCI name, by its chemical name,

    • (iii) in the case of a botanical, by specifying at least the genus and species portions of its INCI name or, if it has no INCI name, by its chemical name, or

    • (iv) if an ingredient is included in the schedule to the Cosmetic Regulations, by its EU technical name set out in column 1 of that schedule, or by the appropriate INCI name set out in column 2 of that schedule and the appropriate French equivalent set out in column 3 of that schedule.

• Marginal note:Ingredients in proportion of 1% or less

  (2) Despite paragraph (1)(c), ingredients that are present in a proportion of 1% or less and all colouring agents of the cannabis topical may be listed in any order after the ingredients that are present in a proportion of more than 1% of the cannabis topical.

• Marginal note:Fragrance and flavour

  (3) The word “parfum” or “aroma”, respectively, may be inserted at the end of the list of ingredients to indicate that an ingredient has been added to the cannabis topical to produce a fragrance or flavour.

• Marginal note:Definition of botanical

  (4) For the purposes of this section, botanical means an ingredient that is directly derived from a plant and that has not been chemically modified before it is used in the production of a cannabis topical.