Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Table 2 of Schedule 3 — weight requirements

• 189 (1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) and section 192, the container of a consumer prepackaged food that is set out in column 1 of Table 2 of Schedule 3 must be of a size that corresponds to a net quantity by weight that is set out in column 2.

• Marginal note:Table 3 of Schedule 3 — weight requirements

  (2) Subject to section 192, the container of a prepackaged food that is set out in column 1 of Table 3 of Schedule 3 must be of a size that corresponds to a net quantity by weight that is set out in column 2.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of a consumer prepackaged food that is set out in column 1 of items 2 to 4 of Table 2 of Schedule 3 if

  • (a) in the case of a catch-weight food, a label that bears the net weight for retail sale is applied or attached to the food;

  • (b) its container is a hermetically sealed package; or

  • (c) it has a net quantity that is greater than 1 kg.

• Marginal note:Exception — volume capacity

  (4) The container of a consumer prepackaged food that is set out in column 1 of items 5 to 10 of Table 2 of Schedule 3 may have any volume capacity that is set out in Table 7 of that Schedule, in the case of metric containers, or Table 8 of that Schedule, in the case of imperial containers.