Food and Drug Regulations

B.14.040 Subject to Division 13.3 of Volume 13 of the Food Compositional Standards Document, no person shall sell a food that consists of a mixture of ground meat and filler, of ground meat by-product and filler or of ground meat, ground meat by-product and filler unless that food

• (a) has a total protein content of not less than 13 per cent;

• (b) has a fat content of not more 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, in the case of a mixture containing pork meat or pork meat by-product or both; and

• (c) has a fat content of not more 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, in the case of any other meat mixture.