Food and Drug Regulations

B.02.030 [S]. Rum

• (a) shall be a potable alcoholic distillate, or a mixture of potable alcoholic distillates, obtained from sugar-cane or sugar-cane products fermented by the action of yeast or a mixture of yeast and other micro-organisms;

• (b) may contain

  • (i) caramel,

  • (ii) fruit and other botanical substances, and

  • (iii) flavouring and flavouring preparations; and

• (c) if it is imported in bulk for the purpose of bottling and sale in Canada as imported rum, may only be

  • (i) modified by adding distilled or otherwise purified water to adjust the rum to the strength stated on the label applied to the container,

  • (ii) modified by adding caramel, or

  • (iii) blended with other imported rum or, in the case of rum sold as Caribbean rum, with other rum.