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Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Version of section 7 from 2019-01-15 to 2022-06-20:


Marginal note:Subsection 13(1) of Act

  •  (1) For the purposes of subsection 13(1) of the Act, any food commodity is a prescribed food commodity that is to be exported or sent or conveyed from one province to another, and any of the following activities is a prescribed activity that a person is prohibited to conduct in respect of that prescribed food commodity except in accordance with these Regulations:

    • (a) manufacturing, preparing, storing, packaging and labelling; and

    • (b) if the food commodity is an organic product, in addition to the activities set out in paragraph (a), advertising and conveying.

  • Marginal note:Subsection 13(2) of Act

    (2) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of the Act, any food — other than a food referred to in paragraph 11(2)(a) or (b) of these Regulations — and any food animal is a prescribed food commodity that is to be exported or sent or conveyed from one province to another, and any of the following activities is a prescribed activity that a person is prohibited to conduct in respect of that prescribed food commodity unless the person is authorized to conduct that activity by a licence:

    • (a) in the case of a food,

      • (i) manufacturing, processing, treating, preserving, grading, packaging and labelling, other than

        • (A) the packaging and labelling of fresh fruits or vegetables in the field by the person who grows or harvests them if they are to be sent or conveyed from one province to another to be subsequently manufactured, processed, treated, preserved or graded by a licence holder,

        • (B) the packaging and labelling of a food referred to in subparagraph 11(2)(c)(i) if, at the time that the food is exported or is sent or conveyed from one province to another, it is not a consumer prepackaged food and it has a label applied or attached to it, or accompanying it, that bears the expression “For Further Preparation Only” or “pour conditionnement ultérieur seulement”, and

        • (C) the grading of a livestock carcass and a poultry carcass, and

      • (ii) if the food is an edible meat product, in addition to the activities set out in subparagraph (i), storing and handling in its imported condition for the purpose of the exercise of an inspector’s powers under the Act; and

    • (b) in the case of a food animal, slaughtering.


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