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

B.14.010. No person shall sell as food a dead animal or any part thereof.

B.14.011. No person shall sell as food, meat, meat by-products, preparations containing meat or meat derivatives obtained, prepared or manufactured from a dead animal.

B.14.012. For the purpose of Sections B.14.010 and B.14.011, “dead animal” means a dead animal that

• (a) was not killed for the purpose of food in accordance with commonly accepted practice of killing animals for the purpose of food, which shall include exsanguination; or

• (b) was affected with disease at the time it was killed.

B.14.013. and B.14.014. [Repealed, SOR/97-148, s. 3]

B.14.015. [S]. Regular Ground Beef shall be beef meat processed by grinding and shall contain not more than 30 per cent beef fat, as determined by official method FO-33, Determination of Fat in Meat and Simulated Meat Products, October 15, 1981.

B.14.015A. [S]. Medium Ground Beef shall be beef meat processed by grinding and shall contain not more than 23 per cent beef fat, as determined by official method FO-33, Determination of Fat in Meat and Simulated Meat Products, October 15, 1981.

B.14.015B. [S]. Lean Ground Beef shall be beef meat processed by grinding and shall contain not more than 17 per cent beef fat, as determined by official method FO-33, Determination of Fat in Meat and Simulated Meat Products, October 15, 1981.

B.14.015C. No person shall sell ground beef that contains more than 30 per cent beef fat, as determined by official method FO-33, Determination of Fat in Meat and Simulated Meat Products, October 15, 1981.

B.14.016. No person shall sell horse-meat or horse-meat by-product, or any food containing horse-meat or horse-meat by-product unless

• (a) it is labelled as such when offered or exposed for sale; and

• (b) when in package form, the principal display panel of the label carries a declaration of the presence of horse-meat or of horse-meat by-product in type at least as legible and conspicuous as any other type upon such principal display panel.

B.14.017. [Repealed, SOR/2003-292, s. 2]

• B.14.018 (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a carcass of beef or veal, or a portion of a carcass of beef or veal that weighs 7 kg or more, is advertised for sale, the advertisement shall indicate

  • (a) in the case of a carcass other than an imported carcass, the grade that was assigned to the carcass by a grading authority established under the Canada Agricultural Products Act or a provincial law;

  • (b) in the case of an imported beef carcass, the grade that was assigned to the carcass by a grading authority established under the Canada Agricultural Products Act or a provincial law or the grade that was assigned to the carcass by a grading authority established under the laws of the country from which the carcass was imported;

  • (c) in the case of an imported veal carcass, the grade that was assigned to the carcass by a grading authority established under the laws of the country from which the carcass was imported; and

  • (d) in the case of a beef carcass, the yield class, if any, that was assigned to the carcass by a grading authority established under the Canada Agricultural Products Act.

• (2) Where, in the case of a carcass referred to in subsection (1), no grade has been assigned thereto as described in that subsection and the carcass or portion thereof that weighs 7 kg or more is advertised for sale, the advertisement shall clearly indicate that the carcass has not been graded.