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Nutrition Labelling of Foods
Dianne Del Zotto
Fair Labelling Practices Program Specialist
Consumer Protection Division, CFIA
February 20, 2008
© 2007 Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada
(Canadian Food Inspection Agency), all rights reserved. Use without permission is prohibited.
New Nutrition Labelling Regulations
• Published in Canada Gazette Part II,
January 1, 2003
• December 12, 2005: for most companies:
− Companies with more than $1 million of gross revenues
from the sale of food in Canada between 12 December
2001 and 12 December 2002
• December 12, 2007: for smaller companies:
− Companies with less than $1 million of gross revenues
from the sale of food in Canada between 12 December
2001 and 12 December 2002
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New Nutrition Labelling Regulations
• 3 Parts
− Diet-related Health Claims:
provision for use of 5 new claims
− Nutrient Content Claims:
updated requirements and
restricted list
− Nutrition Labelling:
mandatory, standardized format
and content
Health
Claims
Nutrient
Content Claims
Nutrition Labelling
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“Nutrition Facts” Table
 Core list of Calories
and 13 nutrients
always declared.
 Actual amount of
the nutrient in the
stated serving of the
food is listed for
macronutrients.
 The nutrient
information based
on a specified
amount of food as
sold.
 % Daily Value
(%DV) indicates
the relative amount
of the nutrient in
the stated serving.
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Do the foods I sell require
a Nutrition Facts Table (NFT)?
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What Foods Require a Nutrition Facts
Table?
•Most prepackaged foods
− Including retail packed foods
− There are some
exceptions and exemptions
•Not required on non-prepackaged foods
•May be voluntarily displayed on non-prepackaged foods or
exempt prepackaged foods.
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Nutrition Facts Table Exceptions
NFT is prohibited on
- infant formulas and foods containing them
- formulated liquid diets
- meal replacements
- nutritional supplements
- foods for use in very low energy diets
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Always Exempt - one-bite candy, individual portions sold by
restaurant, milks in glass bottles
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Conditionally Exempt
• Term highlights that the exemption can be lost under
certain circumstances and the Nutrition Fact Table
required on the label
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Conditionally Exempt
• Beverages with more than 0.5% alcohol
• Fresh vegetables or fruits or combinations
• Raw, Single-ingredient Meat, Poultry, Fish and by•
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products (except ground meat and poultry)
road-side stand, craft show, flea market, fair,
farmers’ market or sugar bush
Individual servings for immediate consumption
(without extended shelf life)
packaged at retail + stickered, when ADS <200 cm2
Products prepared at the retail premises where sold
(unless water is the only ingredient added to premix)
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Conditionally Exempt - Fresh vegetables or fruits or
combinations
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Conditionally Exempt - RAW, Single-ingredient
Meat, Poultry, Fish and by-products
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Conditionally Exempt if sold only at road-side stand, craft
show, flea market, fair, farmers’ market or sugar bush by the
individual who prepared and processed the product
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Conditionally Exempt if prepared and packaged at retail
or packaged at retail + stickered + ADS <200 cm2
PREPARED & PACKAGED AT RETAIL
PACKAGED AT RETAIL
ADS < 200 cm 2
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Loss of Exemption
• vitamin or mineral ingredients
• vitamin/mineral declared component
(except flour)
• aspartame/sucralose/acesulfame-K
• ground meat/poultry
• Label or advertisement:
− nutritional reference, nutrient content claim, biological
role claim, health claim, health logo/symbol/name
− “nutrition facts” or “valeur nutritive”
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Foods for further manufacturing
Multi-serving Ready To Serve Foods
for Commerical Operations
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Nutrition Labelling TOOL KIT
•A Introduction
•B What Products May
Carry a NF Table
•C Contents of NF Table
•D Hierarchy of Formats
•E Available Display
Surface
•F Presentation of NF Table
•G NF Table for Children
<2 yrs
•H Foods- Use in
Manufacturing/RTE
Food Service
•I Glossary
•J NL Assessment Criteria
•K Tools & Templates
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Additional
Information
Poly- and MonoUnsaturated fats
Potassium
Servings per
Container
Calories from fat
and/or
Calories from sat+trans
%DV for Cholesterol
Soluble Fibre
Sugar alcohols
Starch
Additional Vitamins
And Minerals
Information on any
other component must
appear outside of NF table
Footnotes
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Basic Formats
Standard Format
Horizontal Format
Linear Format
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Guide to Developing Accurate Nutrient
Values
• Health Canada website:
− http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/label-
etiquet/nutrition/reg/guide-nutri_val_tc-tm_e.html
− Strong focus on issues faced by manufacturers in
developing accurate nutrient labels
− key steps involved, options and factors to consider when
developing a program to generate nutrient values
− will help you get started on choosing the appropriate
approach
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Guide to Developing Accurate Nutrient
Values
− factors that affect the nutrients in your products, such as
natural variation in nutrients, manufacturing and processing
influences and transportation and storage influences.
− how to design a sampling plan, generate data from existing
sources and how to use a commercial software program.
− how the CFIA assesses the accuracy of nutrient values for
nutrition labelling – the Nutrition Labelling Compliance Test
− choosing a consultant, choosing a laboratory, reviewing
results of laboratory analysis, critical features of databases
and software.
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Nutrient Content Claims
New Regulations:
• Consolidation of 47 permitted claims in Food and Drug
Regulations
• Specify the product compositional criteria and package
labelling requirements
• Prohibit all other claims (expressed or implied) that
characterize the level of a nutrient
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Nutrient Claims - Compositional Criteria
Based on:
• Regulated reference amounts
 standardized quantities reflect the amount of a food
consumed at a single eating occasion
• Servings of stated size
 Serving guidelines
• Density criterion of 50 g for “low” claims
 for reference amounts of 30 g / mL or less (E.g.,
reference amount for crackers is 20 g)
(Chapter 7 of the 2003 Guide to Food Labelling and Advertising)
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Old Nutrient Claims
Low in Fat
− 2 g / 25 g serving
High in Fibre
- 4 g / 130 g serving
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New Nutrient Claims
• “low fat”, “contains only 2 g of fat per serving”, “little
fat”
− (and other expressions specified in regulation)
• Only permitted when there is #
3 g fat per;
− serving and
− reference amount (55 g for muffins)
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At 4.4 g fat per 55 g (and 1.7 g fibre)
NO Low Fat claim &
NO High Fibre claim
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New Nutrient Claims
• Nutrient content made on label or in advertisement
of a conditionally exempt prepackaged product =
loss of exemption:
A nutrition facts table must be declared!
• Nutrient content made on label or in advertisement
of a non-prepackaged product:
Amount of the nutrient must be declared per
serving of stated size on the label or in the
advertisement of food
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Permitted Diet-related Health Claims
• Sodium and hypertension
• Calcium and osteoporosis
• Saturated and trans fat and heart disease
• Fruit and vegetables and some cancers
• Fermentable carbohydrate and tooth decay
(Chapter 8 of the 2003 Guide to Food Labelling and
Advertising)
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References, Resources & Tools
• CFIA Website :
− www.inspection.gc.ca
• Health Canada Website:
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http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/index_e.html
• Justice of Canada Website:
− http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/
• Food and Drugs Act and Regulations:
− http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/legislation/acts-lois/fdr-rad/index_e.html
• 2003 Guide to Food Labelling and Advertising:
− http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/labeti/guide/toce.shtml
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References, Resources & Tools
• Nutrition Labelling Tool Kit:
− http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/labeti/nutrikit/nutrikite.shtml
• Guide to Developing Accurate Nutrient Values:
- http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/label-etiquet/nutrition/reg/guide-
nutri_val_tc-tm_e.html
• Nutrition Labelling Compliance Test:
− http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/labeti/nutricon/nutricone.sh
tml
• Your local CFIA office – for Ontario:
[email protected], 1-800-667-2657
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http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/tools/listserv/listcsu
be.shtml?LABETI-DEC
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© 2007 Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada
(Canadian Food Inspection Agency), all rights reserved. Use without permission is prohibited.
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