Food and Drug Regulations

B.01.502 (1) No person shall, on the label of or in any advertisement for a food, make a representation, express or implied, that characterizes the energy value of the food or the amount of a nutrient contained in the food.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to

• (a) a representation otherwise provided for in these Regulations, including one that is in the form of a nutrition symbol;

• (b) a representation provided for by section 273 of the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations;

• (c) a representation provided for by column 1 of Table 2 to Volume 7 of the document entitled Canadian Standards of Identity, prepared by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and published on its website, as amended from time to time;

• (d) a representation that characterizes the amount of lactose in a food;

• (e) a representation that characterizes the addition of salt to a food, other than any statement or claim set out in column 4 of the Table of Permitted Nutrient Content Statements and Claims;

• (f) a representation that characterizes the addition of sugars to a food, other than any statement or claim set out in column 4 of the Table of Permitted Nutrient Content Statements and Claims;

• (g) a representation that characterizes the amount of starch in a food, if the food is intended solely for infants six months of age or older but less than one year of age;

• (h) the representations “defatted (naming the food)”, “demineralized (naming the food)” and “high (naming the monosaccharide or disaccharide) (naming the syrup)”;

• (i) a representation that characterizes the amount of a fatty acid in a vegetable oil and forms part of its common name;

• (j) a representation that characterizes the amount of alcohol in a beverage;

• (k) the representation “light salted” with respect to fish; or

• (l) the English representation “lean” with respect to a prepackaged meal represented for use in a weight reduction diet or a weight maintenance diet.