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Food and Drug Regulations

Version of section B.24.017 from 2018-04-04 to 2024-03-06:

  •  (1) Where the manufacturer of a formulated liquid diet, a meal replacement or a food represented for use in a very low energy diet is requested in writing by the Minister to submit, on or before a specified day, evidence with respect to that product, the manufacturer shall make no further sales of that product after that day unless the manufacturer has submitted the evidence requested.

  • (2) If the Minister determines that the evidence submitted by a manufacturer under subsection (1) is not sufficient, he or she shall so notify the manufacturer in writing.

  • (3) Where, pursuant to subsection (2), a manufacturer is notified that the evidence with respect to a formulated liquid diet, a meal replacement or a food represented for use in a very low energy diet is not sufficient, the manufacturer shall make no further sales of that product unless the manufacturer submits further evidence and is notified in writing by the Minister that the further evidence is sufficient.

  • (4) A reference in this section to evidence with respect to a formulated liquid diet, a meal replacement or a food represented for use in a very low energy diet means evidence to establish that the food is nutritionally adequate to be used as the sole source of nutrition in meeting the nutritional needs of a person for whom it is intended, when the food is consumed in accordance with the directions for use.

  • SOR/78-698, s. 6
  • SOR/94-35, s. 3
  • SOR/2018-69, ss. 11, 27

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