Food and Drug Regulations
B.01.009 (1) Components of ingredients or of classes of ingredients set out in the following table are not required to be shown on a label:
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Item Ingredient 1 butter 2 margarine 3 shortening 4 lard 5 leaf lard 6 monoglycerides 7 diglycerides 8 rice 9 starches or modified starches 10 breads that comply with the standards set out in sections 12.2.1 to 12.2.6 of Volume 12 of the Food Compositional Standards Document 11 flour 12 soy flour 13 graham flour 14 whole wheat flour 15 baking powder 16 milks that comply with the standards set out in sections 7.1.1 to 7.1.20 of Volume 7 of the Food Compositional Standards Document 17 chewing gumbase 18 sweetening agents that comply with the standards set out in sections 15.1.1 to 15.1.14 of Volume 15 of the Food Compositional Standards Document 19 cocoa, low-fat cocoa 20 salt 21 vinegars that comply with the standards set out in sections 16.1.1 to 16.1.5 of Volume 16 of the Food Compositional Standards Document 22 alcoholic beverages that comply with the standards set out in sections 2.1.1 to 2.1.4, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.4.1 to 2.4.7, 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 2.7.1 to 2.7.8, 2.8.1, 2.8.2 and 2.9.1 of Volume 2 of the Food Compositional Standards Document, Scotch whisky, Irish whisky, Armagnac brandy, Cognac brandy, Bourbon whisky, Tennessee whisky, Tequila and Mezcal; 23 cheeses that comply with the standards set out in Division 7.4 of Volume 7 of the Food Compositional Standards Document, if the total amount of those cheeses is less than 10 per cent of the prepackaged product 24 jams, marmalades and jellies that comply with the standards set out in sections 10.4.1 to 10.4.10 of Volume 10 of the Food Compositional Standards Document, if the total amount of those ingredients is less than 5 per cent of the prepackaged product 25 olives, pickles, relish and horse-radish when the total amount of those ingredients is less than 10 per cent of a prepackaged product 26 vegetable or animal fats or oils that comply with the standards set out in sections 8.1.1 to 8.1.9, 8.2.1 to 8.2.4 and 8.3.1 to 8.3.3 of Volume 8 of the Food Compositional Standards Document, and modified, interesterified or fully hydrogenated vegetable or animal fats or oils, if the total amount of those fats and oils is less than 15 per cent of the prepackaged product 27 prepared or preserved meat, fish, poultry meat, meat by-product or poultry by-product when the total amount of those ingredients is less than 10 per cent of a prepackaged product that consists of an unstandardized food 28 alimentary paste that does not contain egg in any form or any flour other than wheat flour 29 bacterial culture 30 hydrolyzed plant protein 31 carbonated water 32 whey, whey powder, concentrated whey, whey butter and whey butter oil 33 mould culture 34 chlorinated water and fluorinated water 35 gelatin 36 toasted wheat crumbs used in or as a binder, filler or breading in or on a food product (2) Subject to subsection (3), where a preparation or mixture set out in the table to this subsection is added to a food, the ingredients and components of the preparation or mixture are not required to be shown on the label of that food.
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Item Preparation/Mixture 1 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 8] 2 flavouring preparations 3 artificial flavouring preparations 4 spice or herb mixtures 5 seasoning mixtures, other than those set out in item 4 and salt added separately, if the total weight of those seasoning ingredients is no more than 2% of the total weight of ingredients used in the manufacture of the prepackaged product excluding added water used as an ingredient that has been removed during its manufacture 6 vitamin preparations 7 mineral preparations 8 food additive preparations, including food colour preparations and rennet preparations 9 [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 8] 10 food flavour-enhancer preparations 11 compressed, dry, active or instant yeast preparations (3) Where a preparation or mixture set out in the table to subsection (2) is added to a food, and the preparation or mixture contains one or more of the following ingredients or components, those ingredients or components shall be shown by their common names in the list of the ingredients of the food to which they are added as if they were ingredients of that food:
(a) salt;
(b) glutamic acid or its salts;
(c) hydrolyzed plant protein;
(d) aspartame;
(e) potassium chloride;
(f) any ingredient or component that performs a function in, or has any effect on, that food; and
(g) any supplemental ingredient.
(4) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), where any of the following components is contained in an ingredient set out in the tables to those subsections, that component shall be shown in the list of ingredients:
(a) peanut oil;
(b) fully hydrogenated peanut oil; and
(c) modified peanut oil.
(5) [Repealed, SOR/2011-28, s. 2]
- SOR/78-728, s. 1
- SOR/79-23, s. 6
- SOR/79-662, s. 1
- SOR/88-559, s. 4
- SOR/92-626, s. 8
- SOR/93-145, s. 2
- SOR/93-465, s. 1
- SOR/95-548, s. 5(F)
- SOR/97-263, s. 1
- SOR/2000-417, s. 1
- SOR/2010-143, s. 39(E)
- SOR/2011-28, s. 2
- SOR/2022-143, s. 8
- SOR/2022-168, s. 4
- SOR/2022-169, s. 6
- SOR/2024-244, s. 8
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