Food and Drug Regulations (C.R.C., c. 870)

B.18.016. [S]. Glucose or Glucose Syrup

• (a) shall be the purified concentrated solution of nutritive saccharides obtained from the incomplete hydrolysis, by means of acid or enzymes, of starch or of a starch-containing substance;

• (b) shall have a total solids content of not less than 70 per cent;

• (c) shall have a sulphated ash content of not more than 1.0 per cent on a dry basis;

• (d) shall have a reducing sugar content (dextrose equivalent) of not less than 20 per cent expressed as D-glucose on a dry basis; and

• (e) may contain sulphurous acid or its salts.

B.18.017. [S]. Glucose Solids or Dried Glucose Syrup

• (a) shall be glucose or glucose syrup from which the water has been partially removed;

• (b) shall have a total solids content of not less than 93 per cent;

• (c) shall have a sulphated ash content of not more than 1.0 per cent on a dry basis;

• (d) shall have a reducing sugar content (dextrose equivalent) of not less than 20 per cent expressed as D-glucose, on a dry basis; and

• (e) may contain sulphurous acid or its salts.

B.18.018. [S]. (Naming the source of the glucose) Syrup

• (a) shall be glucose;

• (b) may contain

  • (i) a sweetening agent,

  • (ii) a flavouring preparation,

  • (iii) sorbic acid,

  • (iv) sulphurous acid or its salts,

  • (v) salt, and

  • (vi) water; and

• (c) shall not contain more than

  • (i) 35 per cent moisture; and

  • (ii) 3 per cent ash.

B.18.019. [S]. Lactose

• (a) shall be the carbohydrate normally obtained from whey and may

  • (i) be anhydrous,

  • (ii) contain one molecule of water of crystalization, or

  • (iii) be a mixture of both subparagraphs (i) and (ii);

• (b) shall not contain less than 99.0 per cent anhydrous lactose on a moisture free basis;

• (c) shall not contain more than 0.3 per cent sulphated ash on a moisture free basis;

• (d) shall have a weight loss of not more than 6.0 per cent on drying; and

• (e) shall have, in a 10 per cent solution, a pH of not less than 4.5 and not more than 7.0.

B.18.025. [S]. Honey shall be the food produced by honey bees and derived from

• (a) the nectar of blossoms,

• (b) secretions of living plants, or

• (c) secretions on living plants,

and shall have

• (d) a fluid, viscous or partly or wholly crystallized consistency;

• (e) a diastase activity, determined after processing and blending, as represented by a diastase figure on the Gothe scale of not less than eight where the hydroxy-methyl-furfural content is not more than 0.004 per cent; or

• (f) a diastase activity, determined after processing and blending, as represented by a diastase figure on the Gothe scale of not less than three where the hydroxy-methyl-furfural content is not more than 0.0015 per cent.