Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Individually measured food

• 302 (1) A declaration of net quantity of a consumer prepackaged food that is an individually measured food is not required to meet the legibility and character height requirements of subsection 210(2), paragraph 229(1)(a), subsections 229(2) and (3) and paragraph 230(b).

• Marginal note:Food packaged from bulk

  (2) The declaration of net quantity of a consumer prepackaged food, other than an individually measured food, that is packaged from bulk at retail and that is clearly shown on the principal display panel in Canadian units, is not required to

  • (a) meet the legibility and character height requirements of subsection 210(2), paragraph 229(1)(a), subsections 229(2) and (3) and paragraph 230(b); or

  • (b) be shown in metric units.

• Marginal note:Definition of individually measured

  (3) In this section, individually measured, in respect of a food, means that the food is measured and packaged in a manner other than in accordance with a predetermined fixed quantity and, as a result, is sold in varying quantities.