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Food and Drug Regulations

Version of section B.02.100 from 2006-03-22 to 2006-05-10:


 [S]. Wine

  • (a) shall be the product of the alcoholic fermentation of the juice of the grape;

  • (b) may have added to it during the course of the manufacture

    • (i) yeast,

    • (ii) concentrated grape juice,

    • (iii) sugar, dextrose, invert sugar, glucose or glucose solids or aqueous solutions thereof,

    • (iv) yeast foods,

    • (v) calcium sulphate in such quantity that the content of soluble sulphates in the finished wine shall not exceed 0.2 per cent weight by volume calculated as potassium sulphate,

    • (vi) calcium carbonate in such quantity that the content of tartaric acid in the finished wine shall not be less than 0.15 per cent weight by volume,

    • (vii) sulphurous acid, including salts thereof, in such quantity that its content in the finished wine shall not exceed

      • (A) 70 parts per million in the free state, or

      • (B) 350 parts per million in the combined state, calculated as sulphur dioxide,

    • (viii) tartaric or citric acid,

    • (ix) amylase and pectinase,

    • (x) ascorbic or erythorbic acid or salts thereof,

    • (xi) anti-foaming agent,

    • (xii) any of the following fining agents: activated carbon, agar-agar, albumen, casein, clay, diatomaceous earth, gelatin, isinglass, potassium ferrocyanide, tannic acid, white of egg and polyvinylpyrrolidone in an amount that does not exceed two parts per million in the finished product,

    • (xiii) caramel,

    • (xiv) brandy, fruit spirit or alcohol derived from the alcoholic fermentation of a food source distilled to not less than 94 per cent alcohol by volume,

    • (xv) carbon dioxide, oxygen or ozone,

    • (xvi) sorbic acid or salts thereof, not exceeding 500 parts per million calculated as sorbic acid, and

    • (xvii) [Repealed, SOR/81-565, s. 1]

  • (c) prior to final filtration may be treated with

    • (i) a strongly acid cation exchange resin in the sodium ion form, or

    • (ii) a weakly basic anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl ion form.

  • SOR/78-402, s. 1
  • SOR/81-565, s. 1
  • SOR/84-300, ss. 14(F), 15(E)

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