NEW Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR) come into effect January 15, 2019.

https://inspection.gc.ca/food/sfcr/eng/1512149177555/1512149203296

SAFE FOOD FOR CANADIAN REGULATIONS.

All foods sold in Canada must be labelled and sold as per the requirements of The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

Q&R can help with:

Preparing for licencing

Properly preparing a Canadian label.

Including Food Additive Use, Nutrition Labelling, Nutrient Content & Health Claims and Food Fortification.

Ingredient Lists:

  • Applicability, Exemptions and location
  • Nomenclature (Common Names, FDR names, CFIA Food Additive Synonyms, Standardized Food) 
  • Manner of Declaration (Typography, small packages, order of presentation, component declaration etc.)
  • Marketing Authorizations and Temporary Marketing Authorization

Nutrition Labelling

How to properly set up and present Canadian nutrition information.


  • Activities are subject to licencing, preventive control plans and traceability.
  • Many technical documents have been Incorporated by reference, (IbR), for example, standards of identity, organic standards, units of measurement for Net content and preventive control plan requirements.
  • Amendments to the Labelling requirements in the SFCR have been made as part of food labelling modernization.

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