Safe Food for Canadians Regulations
Version of section 286 from 2022-06-21 to 2024-06-19:
Marginal note:Prepackaged edible meat products
286 The label of a prepackaged edible meat product must bear on the principal display panel a statement that indicates that the meat product must be kept refrigerated or kept frozen, as the case may be, unless the meat product
(a) is in a hermetically sealed package and is commercially sterile;
(b) is dried to attain a water activity of 0.85 or less;
(c) has a pH of 4.6 or less;
(d) is packaged in salt or a saturated salt solution; or
(e) is fermented and has a pH of 5.3 or less, and a water activity of 0.90 or less, at the end of the fermentation.
- SOR/2022-144, s. 44
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