Policies

Food Labelling

• Food labelling coordination
• Notice: Change to the requirement for the grouping of sugars-based ingredients in the list of ingredients
• Policy for Labelling and Advertising of Dietary Fibre-Containing Food Products

Food Safety

• Policy on Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods (2023)
  • What we heard: Consultations on the policy on Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods
• Policy on Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods (2011)
  • Validation of ready-to-eat foods for changing the classification of a Category 1 into a Category 2A or 2B food - in relation to Health Canada's Policy on Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods (2011)
    • Summary of comments received on Health Canada's proposed document "Validation of ready-to-eat foods for changing the classification of a Category 1 into a Category 2A or 2B food - in relation to Health Canada's Policy on Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods (2011)" - October-November, 2011
  • Listeria monocytogenes Challenge Testing of Refrigerated Ready-to-Eat Foods
  • Food Additives that May Currently be Used as Class II Preservatives to Potentially Control the Growth of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat (RTE) Foods sold in Canada
• Guidelines for the development of challenge test studies for Clostridium botulinumin RTE foods
• Policy on Managing Health Risk Associated with the Consumption of Sprouted Seeds and Beans
• Low-Acid and Acidified Low-Acid Foods In Hermetically Sealed Containers (Visual Inspection Protocol)
• Policy on Specified Risk Material (SRM) in the Food Supply

Health Claims

• Preparing a Submission for Foods with Health Claims: incorporating Standards of Evidence for Evaluating Foods with Health Claims
• Policy Paper - Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods and Health Claims on Foods

Infant formula and human milk fortifiers

• Interim policy on the importation and sale of infant formulas, human milk fortifiers and dietary products for the treatment of inborn errors of metabolism to mitigate shortages

Novel Foods

• Food Directorate Interim Policy on Foods from Cloned Animals

Nutrition

• Policy Document & Executive Summary - Addition of Vitamins and Minerals to Food, 2005: Health Canada's Proposed Policy and Implementation Plans
• Policy Respecting Dietary Fibre in Meal Replacements
• Interim Policy on the Use of Expired Interim Marketing Authorizations Related to Food Fortification