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Food and Drug Regulations

Version of section B.01.010.3 from 2012-08-04 to 2016-12-13:

  •  (1) If a “Contains” statement is included on the label of a prepackaged product under any of subsections B.01.010.1(2), B.01.010.1(9), B.01.010.2(3) or B.01.010.2(9), that statement must

    • (a) appear after the list of ingredients for the product, if any, without any intervening printed, written or graphic material; and

    • (b) include all of the following information, even if all or part of that information is also shown in the list of ingredients for the product:

      • (i) the source for each food allergen that is present in the product,

      • (ii) each source for the gluten that is present in the product, and

      • (iii) one of the common names “sulfites”, “sulfiting agents”, “sulphites” or “sulphiting agents”, if the total amount of sulphites present in the product is 10 parts per million or more.

  • (2) Despite paragraph (1)(b), the following information is not required to be shown in the statement more than once:

    • (a) the same source of a food allergen;

    • (b) the same source of gluten; and

    • (c) one of the common names “sulfites”, “sulfiting agents”, “sulphites” or “sulphiting agents”.

  • SOR/2011-28, s. 4

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