Cannabis Regulations

Marginal note:Ingredients — edible cannabis

• 102 (1) Edible cannabis that is a cannabis product — or that is contained in a cannabis accessory that is a cannabis product — must not contain any ingredients other than food and food additives.

• Marginal note:Temporarily marketed foods and supplemented foods

  (2) The following foods must not be used as an ingredient to produce edible cannabis referred to in subsection (1) and must not be a constituent of such an ingredient:

  • (a) a food that is described in a Temporary Marketing Authorization Letter issued under subsection B.01.054(1) of the Food and Drug Regulations;

  • (b) a supplemented food within the meaning of section B.01.001 of those Regulations; or

  • (c) a food in respect of which the manufacturer, as defined in section A.01.010 of the Food and Drug Regulations, is exempt from the application of those Regulations in accordance with section 32 or 33 of the Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations and the Cannabis Regulations (Supplemented Foods), as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Meat products, poultry products and fish

  (3) A meat product, poultry product or fish, other than a food additive, must not be used as an ingredient to produce edible cannabis referred to in subsection (1) — and must not be a constituent of such an ingredient — unless the meat product, poultry product or fish

  • (a) has been produced by a person that is authorized to produce it under the laws of a province or the Safe Food for Canadians Act or has been imported in accordance with that Act; and

  • (b) has a water activity that does not exceed 0.85 at a temperature of 22 ± 2°C at the time the meat product, poultry product or fish is obtained by the holder of the licence for processing that is producing the edible cannabis.

• Marginal note:Self-produced food

  (4) A holder of a licence for processing that produces a food may use it as an ingredient to produce edible cannabis referred to in subsection (1) — or as a constituent of such an ingredient — if

  • (a) the food is not a meat product, poultry product or fish; and

  • (b) the sale of the food would not be prohibited under section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act.

• Marginal note:Food additives

  (5) A holder of a licence for processing may use a food additive as an ingredient to produce edible cannabis referred to in subsection (1) only if

  • (a) the edible cannabis would be a food that is set out in column 3 of the Lists of Permitted Food Additives, if the edible cannabis did not contain or have on it anything referred to in item 1 or 3 of Schedule 1 to the Act;

  • (b) the food additive is set out in column 1 and is not caffeine or caffeine citrate;

  • (c) the food additive is obtained from any corresponding source set out in column 2;

  • (d) the food additive is used for any corresponding purpose of use set out in column 4;

  • (e) the amount of the food additive does not exceed

    • (i) any corresponding maximum level of use and any corresponding maximum level of residue set out in column 5, and

    • (ii) the amount that is required to accomplish the purpose for which it is added, in the case where the words “Good Manufacturing Practice” appear in column 5 for that food additive in the food; and

  • (f) any other corresponding condition set out in column 5 is met.

• Marginal note:Vitamins and mineral nutrients

  (6) A vitamin or mineral nutrient must not be used as an ingredient to produce edible cannabis referred to in subsection (1) unless its use is permitted under subsection (5).

• (7) [Repealed, SOR/2022-251, s. 15]