Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Consumer prepackaged cheese

• 249 (1) The principal display panel of a consumer prepackaged cheese must bear

  • (a) the relative firmness of the cheese;

  • (b) except in the case of a soft white cheese, the principal ripening characteristic of the cheese; and

  • (c) in the case of a mixture of grated or shredded cheeses, the varieties of the cheeses, in descending order of their proportion in the mixture.

  • (d) [Repealed, SOR/2022-144, s. 29]

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of

  • (a) cheddar cheese;

  • (b) cream cheese with or without added ingredients;

  • (c) cream cheese spread with or without added ingredients;

  • (d) whey cheese;

  • (e) processed cheese with or without added ingredients;

  • (f) processed cheese food with or without added ingredients;

  • (g) processed cheese spread with or without added ingredients;

  • (h) cold-pack cheese with or without added ingredients;

  • (i) cold-pack cheese food with or without added ingredients;

  • (j) cottage cheese;

  • (k) creamed cottage cheese; and

  • (l) any cheese that is listed in Part I or II of the table to section B.08.033 of the Food and Drug Regulations.

• Marginal note:Relative firmness

  (3) The relative firmness of the cheese must be identified by the expressions that correspond to the applicable moisture on fat-free basis content set out in the Descriptive Words, Expressions and Identification Names Document.

• Marginal note:Principal ripening characteristic

  (4) The principal ripening characteristic of the cheese must be identified by the words or expressions that correspond to the applicable ripening process set out in the Descriptive Words, Expressions and Identification Names Document.