Food and Drug Regulations (C.R.C., c. 870)
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Regulations are current to 2013-06-10 and last amended on 2013-05-31. Previous Versions
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 [Repealed, SOR/97-148, s. 3]
Meat, Meat By-products
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.
- SOR/82-768, s. 40.
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.
- SOR/82-768, s. 40.
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.
- SOR/82-768, s. 40.
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.
- SOR/82-768, s. 40.
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.
- SOR/88-336, s. 3.
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 [Repealed, SOR/2003-292, s. 2]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.
- SOR/92-626, s. 15;
- SOR/2003-6, s. 79.
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