Food and Drug Regulations (C.R.C., c. 870)

B.16.017 The label of a food that contains polydextrose must indicate the amount of polydextrose, expressed in grams per serving of stated size.

• B.16.018 (1) The label of a food that contains erythritol must carry a statement indicating the amount of erythritol, expressed in grams per serving of stated size, unless the label carries a nutrition facts table or supplemented food facts table.

• (2) The statement of the amount of erythritol must be grouped together with the statement of the amount of any other sugar alcohols and the amount of polydextrose.

B.16.019 The label of a table-top sweetener that contains aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame-potassium or neotame must carry a statement of the sweetness per serving, expressed in terms of the amount of sugar required to produce an equivalent degree of sweetness.

• B.16.020 (1) The label of cured beef, the cuts of which have been cured with pumping pickle that contains any proteolytic food enzyme, must carry, on the principal display panel, immediately preceding or following the common name, the statement “Tenderized with (naming the proteolytic food enzyme)”.

• (2) In this section, food enzyme means any enzyme that is a food additive used to catalyze a chemical reaction in a food.

B.16.100 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 112]

DIVISION 17Salt

B.17.001 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 113]

B.17.002 [Repealed, SOR/79-662, s. 18]

• B.17.003 (1) No person shall sell, for table or general household use, salt for which a standard is set out in Volume 14 of the Food Compositional Standards Document unless the salt contains 0.01% potassium iodide.

• (2) The presence of iodide must be shown on the principal display panel.

B.17.004 Salt for table or general household use referred to in section B.17.003 may contain dextrose to stabilize potassium iodide.

DIVISION 18

Sweetening Agents

B.18.001 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.002 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.003 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.004 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.005 No person shall sell liquid sugar or liquid invert sugar unless the label carries a statement of the percentage of its sugar or invert sugar content, as the case may be.

B.18.006 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.007 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.008 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.009 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.010 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.011 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.015 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.016 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.017 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.018 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.019 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.025 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.026 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

B.18.027 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 114]

DIVISION 19Vinegar

B.19.001 Vinegar shall be the liquid obtained by the acetous fermentation of an alcoholic liquid and shall contain not less than 4.1 per cent and not more than 12.3 per cent acetic acid.

B.19.002 The percentage of acetic acid by volume contained in vinegar must be shown on the principal display panel followed by the words “acetic acid”.

B.19.003 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 115]

B.19.004 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 115]

B.19.005 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 115]

B.19.006 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 115]

B.19.007 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 115]

B.19.008 No person shall name any of the varieties of vinegar forming a blended vinegar unless the label of such blended vinegar carries a complete list of all the varieties of vinegar present, in descending order of proportionate content, based on acetic acid.

B.19.009 The maximum limits for the acetic acid content of a vinegar described in section B.19.001 do not apply to vinegar sold only for manufacturing use if the words “For Manufacturing Use Only” are shown on the principal display panel and upon all documents pertaining to such vinegar.

DIVISION 20[Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 116]

B.20.001 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 116]

B.20.002 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 116]

B.20.003 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 116]

B.20.004 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 116]

B.20.005 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 116]

DIVISION 21Marine and Fresh Water Animal Products

B.21.001 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 117]

• B.21.002 (1) In this Division,

  filler

  filler means

  • (a) flour or meal prepared from grain or potato, but not from a legume,

  • (b) processed wheat flour containing an amount of reducing sugars, expressed as dextrose equivalent, of not less than that set out in column 3 for that item of the Table of Chemical, Physical and Nutritional Characteristics of Food, as determined by the corresponding method set out in column 4,

  • (c) bakery products, except those containing a legume,

  • (d) milk powder, skim milk powder, buttermilk powder or whey powder, and

  • (e) starch; (agent de remplissage)

  marine and fresh water animal

  marine and fresh water animal includes

  • (a) fish,

  • (b) crustaceans, molluscs, other marine invertebrates,

  • (c) marine mammals, and

  • (d) frogs; (animaux marins et animaux d’eau douce)

  meat

  meat means the clean and dressed flesh of crustaceans, molluscs, other marine invertebrates and marine mammals. (chair)

• (2) For the purposes of sections B.21.005, B.21.008 and B.21.020, except the terms fish protein and fish binder, fish means clean and dressed fish.

B.21.003 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 119]

B.21.004 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 119]

B.21.005 Fish or fish preparations, except fish protein, and meat products or meat product preparations are adulterated if any mucous membranes, any organ or portion of the genital system or any other organ or portion of a marine or fresh water animal that is not commonly sold as food is present in or has been added to them.

B.21.006 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 119]

B.21.007 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 119]

B.21.008 No person shall sell filler or a fish binder represented for use in fish products either by label or in any advertisement unless the label carries adequate directions for use in accordance with the requirements of sections B.21.020 and B.21.021, as the case may be.

B.21.009 Powdered fully hydrogenated cottonseed oil may be applied as a release agent to the surface of marine and fresh water animal products in an amount not greater than 0.25% of the product.

Prepared Fish

B.21.020 No person shall sell prepared fish that contains

• (a) more than that amount of filler, fish binder and other ingredients that is represented by an amount of reducing sugars, expressed as dextrose equivalent, that is set out in column 3 for that item of the Table of Chemical, Physical and Nutritional Characteristics of Food, as determined by the corresponding method set out in column 4; or

• (b) more than 70% moisture, in the case of prepared fish that contains filler.

B.21.021 No person shall sell prepared meat that contains more than that amount of filler, fish binder and other ingredients that is represented by an amount of reducing sugars, expressed as dextrose equivalent, that is set out in column 3 for that item of the Table of Chemical, Physical and Nutritional Characteristics of Food, as determined by the corresponding method set out in column 4.

B.21.022 and B.21.023 [Repealed, SOR/79-252, s. 4]

B.21.024 Despite section B.21.021, lobster paste must not contain more than 2% filler or fish binder.

B.21.025 No person shall sell marine and fresh water animals, or marine and fresh water animal products, that are packed in a container that has been sealed to exclude air and that are smoked or to which liquid smoke flavour or liquid smoke flavour concentrate has been added, unless

• (a) the container has been heat-processed after sealing at a temperature and for a time sufficient to destroy all spores of the species Clostridium botulinum;

• (b) the contents of the container contain an amount of salt not less than that set out in column 3 for that item of the Table of Chemical, Physical and Nutritional Characteristics of Food, as determined by the corresponding method set out in column 4;

• (c) the contents of the container are customarily cooked before eating; or

• (d) the contents of the container are frozen and the principal display panel of the label of the container carries the statement “Keep Frozen Prior to Use” in the same size type used for the common name of the contents of the container.

B.21.027 No person shall sell fish protein unless

• (a) it has a total protein content of at least 75%; and

• (b) the quality of the protein is not less than that set out in column 3 for that item of the Table of Chemical, Physical and Nutritional Characteristics of Food, as determined by the corresponding method set out in column 4.