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Amendments in 2003 Guide to Food Labelling and Advertising

This page lists sections of the 2003 Guide to Food Labelling and Advertising affected by updates or changes. Please note that corrections to typographical or other minor errors which do not impact the nature of the material are not included. In addition, these updates have all been incorporated into the online html and pdf versions of the 2003 Guide to Food Labelling and Advertising.

*All changes were made before December 2005 unless otherwise noted.

Preface

• No changes

Chapter 1

Section 1.4.3

• CFIA 's Label Registration Unit address change, changed from 159 Cleopatra Dr. to 1431 Merivale Rd. Nepean ON K1A 0Y9.

Section 1.6

• Address change in British Columbia New address is 400-4321 Still Creek Avenue, Burnaby British Columbia V5C 657.
• Victoria office moved from Commerce Circle to 103-4475 Viewmont Avenue Victoria British Columbia V8Z 6L8.
• Addition of Scarborough, Ontario office.
• Removed address of Longueuil office address.
• Telephone number change - Newfoundland and Labrador, new number is (709) 772-8912.
• Quebec office changed from Gare Maritime Champlain to Place Iberville IV Suite 100, 2954 Laurier Boulevard
  Ste-Foy Quebec G1V 5C7.

Chapter 2

Section 2.4 Bilingual Requirements

• Bilingual Requirements address change

Section 2.13.1 Standard Container Sizes for Wine, Syrups and Peanut Butter

• Section 2.13.1.(b) Addition of container standard sizes:
  “125, 250, 375, 500, or 750 mL"

Chapter 3

• No Change

Chapter 4

Section 4.8.3 Certification

• CAQ name change to CAAQ and new web address.

Section 4.19 Imported Product of Canada, Made in Canada, Country of Origin

• (2006-08-23) New web address for "Made in Canada Labelling"

Chapter 5

Section 5.4.3 Declaring Nutrients Outside the Nutrition Facts Table

• mcg changed to µg
• Addition of NE (niacin equivalents)”

Chapter 6

Table 6-1 Core Nutrition Information

• Column 3, item 7 cholesterol rounding was updated to read:
  (1) The amount in milligrams:
  (a) if the product meets the conditions set out in column 2 of item 27 of the table following B.01.513 for the subject "free of cholesterol" set out in column 1, to "0 mg"; and
  (b) in all other cases, to the nearest multiple of 5 mg;

Section 6.8 Carbohydrates

• (2006-07-04) addition of erythritol as a sugar alcohol

Section 6.8.1 Dietary fibre

• (2006-08-23) changes to definition

Section 6.8.3 Sugar Alcohols

• (2006-07-04) addition of erythritol

Section 6.9.1 Calculating Protein Ratings.

• Changed Protein Efficiency Ratio (PER) of Egg to 3.0 in calculation of Protein Rating in Whole Egg. Protein Rating of Whole Egg is 38.4

Table 6-11 Energy Values of Sugar Alcohols, Polydextrose and Glycerol

• (2006-07-04) Addition of erythritol

Table 6-12 Dietary Fibre - Summary of Sources, Acceptability and Labelling

• a notation was added regarding the acceptable use of oat hull fibre in bar-type meal replacements.
• (2006-04-25) a notation was added regarding the acceptable use of inulin from chicory root as a fibre source.
• (2006-06-13) a notation was added regarding the use of ground pea hulls (Best Cooking Pulses (BCP)).
• (2006-08-23) a notation was added regarding the addition of Sensus Frutafit to inulin section.
• (2006-08-23) Woodstone Foods is now Nutri-Pea Ltd. in the pea hull category.

Table 6-13 Protein Efficiency Ratios (May, 2004) - New PER values from Health Canada

• Changes:

  • Beef , muscle changed to: Beef or veal muscle
  • Cheese cheddar = 2.8 changed to Cheese, cheddar = 2.5
  • Egg whole = 3.8 changed to Egg whole = 3.0
  • Fish (also see tuna) = 3.6 changed to Fish = 2.7
  • Kidney, beef = 2.9 changed to Kidney, beef = 2.7
  • Pork, tenderloin = 3.3 changed to Pork, tenderloin = 2.7

• Additions:

  • Poultry = 2.7 added
  • Muscle Meats (bison, lamb, etc) = 2.7 added

• Removed:

  • Milk, skim (heated) = 1.5
  • Wheat germ = 2.9

Chapter 7

Table 7-10. Summary table for Sodium (salt) Claims, item e)

• column 2: removal of asterisk
• column 2: Note added, “For the definition of similar reference food see 7.9.2 of this Guide.”
•  last column, add “B.01.500" for FDR reference.

Chapter 8

Section 8.5 Biological Role Claims

• Correction in web address for "Institute of Medicine of the National Academies" changed to: www.iom.edu

Table 8-2 Summary Table of Biological Role Claims

•  Addition of DHA in Biological role Claims.

Chapter 9

Section 9.2. Sweetners and Sweetening Agents

• Polydextrose replaced with maltitol.

Section 9.2.3 Sugar Alcohols

• (2006-07-04) erythritol added

Section 9.4.3. Sensory Characteristic Descriptions

• Section repealed.

Section 9.9 under “Weight-reduction diets”

• Reference to section 8.7 corrected to 8.9.2

Chapter 10

• No changes

Chapter 11

• Corrections/changes in Table of contents sections 11.4.3, 11.5.3, 11.7.3, 11.9.2, 11.9.3, Table 11-2, Table 11-3, and Table 11-4
• Table 11-1 and Table 11-3 should be reprinted

Chapter 12

• Many changes throughout - reprint

Chapter 13

• no changes

Chapter 14

• no changes

Chapter 15

• no changes