Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Food commodities deemed to meet applicable requirements

• 374 (1) A food commodity that, immediately before the day on which these Regulations come into force, meets the requirements that apply in respect of that food commodity under the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act, the Fish Inspection Act, the Food and Drugs Act, the Meat Inspection Act and the Canada Agricultural Products Act is deemed, as of the day on which these Regulations come into force, to meet the requirements that apply under these Regulations with respect to the manufacturing, preparing, storing, packaging and labelling of that food commodity if those activities are conducted before that day.

• Marginal note:Reference to Act

  (2) In paragraph 29(1)(a), subparagraph 30(a)(ii) and paragraph 39(c), a reference to “the Act” must be read to include a reference to any provisions of the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act that apply in respect of a food, the Fish Inspection Act, the Meat Inspection Act, and the Canada Agricultural Products Act, as they read immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations.

• Marginal note:Inspection legends

  (3) For the purposes of sections 179 to 183, subsection 184(1), section 185, paragraphs 258(a), 282(1)(a) and 287(1)(a), the following are deemed to be an inspection legend that is set out in Figure 1 or 2 of Schedule 2, for the 36-month period that begins on the day on which these Regulations come into force:

  • (a) in the case of a meat product, an inspection legend set out in Figure 1, 2 or 3 of Schedule III to the Meat Inspection Regulations, 1990, as they read immediately before the coming into force of force of these Regulations, or such an inspection legend without the registration number if it meets the conditions under subsection 93(3) of those Regulations, as they read immediately before the coming into force of force of these Regulations;

  • (b) in the case of a prepackaged processed egg product, the inspection legend set out in Schedule II to the Processed Egg Regulations, as they read immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations; and

  • (c) in the case of prepackaged fish, a mark or label with a designation that is referred to in section 28 of the Fish Inspection Regulations, as they read immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations.