Label Laws

This is Part of Canada Label Laws 


ingredient means an individual unit of food that is combined as an individual unit of food with one or more other individual units of food to form an integral unit of food that is sold as a prepackaged product; (ingrédient)



• B.01.008.2 (1) A list of ingredients shall be introduced by a title that shall

o (a) consist of the term

 (i) “Ingredients” or “Ingredients:” in the English version of the list, and

 (ii) “Ingrédients”, “Ingrédients:” or “Ingrédients:” in the French version of the list;

o (b) be shown in bold type; and

o (c) be shown without any intervening printed, written or graphic material appearing between the title and the first ingredient shown in the list.

• (2) A list of ingredients shall be shown in a manner that clearly differentiates it on the label, by means of one or both of

o (a) graphics in the form of a solid-line border around the list or one or more solid lines appearing immediately above, below or at the sides of the list that are the same colour as that of the type used to show the information referred to in subsection B.01.008.1(1); and

o (b) a background colour that creates a contrast between the background colour of the list and the background colour used on the adjacent area of the label, other than the area used to display a food allergen source, gluten source and added sulphites statement, as defined in subsection B.01.010.1(1), a declaration referred to in subsection B.01.010.4(1) and a nutrition facts table.

• (3) In a list of ingredients, ingredients shall be shown

o (a) in descending order of their proportion of the prepackaged product or as a percentage of the prepackaged product, and the order or percentage shall be the order or percentage of the ingredients before they are combined to form the product;

o (b) in lower case letters, except that upper case letters shall be used to show

 (i) the first letter of each ingredient or, in the case of a food additive shown in whole or in part by an acronym, the entire acronym, and

 (ii) the alpha-descriptor that forms a part of the common name for a food additive, vitamin or micro-organism; and

o (c) separated by a bullet point or a comma.

• (4) Despite paragraph (3)(a), the following ingredients may be shown at the end of the list of ingredients, in any order:

o (a) spices, seasonings and herbs, except salt;

o (b) natural flavours and artificial flavours;

o (c) flavour enhancers;

o (d) food additives, except ingredients of food additive preparations or mixtures of substances for use as a food additive;

o (e) vitamins;

o (f) salts or derivatives of vitamins;

o (g) mineral nutrients; and

o (h) salts of mineral nutrients.

• (5) In a list of ingredients, the components of an ingredient shall be shown

o (a) in parentheses, immediately after the ingredient, unless the source of a food allergen or gluten is shown immediately after the ingredient, in which case components of the ingredient shall be shown immediately after that source;

o (b) in descending order of their proportion of the ingredient determined before the components are combined to form the ingredient;

o (c) in lower case letters, except that upper case letters shall be used to show

 (i) in the case of a food additive shown in whole or in part by an acronym, the entire acronym, and

 (ii) the alpha-descriptor that forms a part of the common name for a food additive, vitamin or micro-organism; and

o (d) separated by a comma.





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