CA: New rules Nutrition Facts table and list of ingredients

30 January 2017

The Canadian Minister of Health announced amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations to make the Nutrition Facts table and list of ingredients on packaged foods easier for Canadians to use and understand.
Included in the labelling amendments are changes to the regulation of serving sizes to make comparing similar food products easier. A simple rule of thumb, 5% is a little, 15% is a lot, has also been added to the Nutrition Facts Table to help Canadians use the percent daily value (% DV) to better understand the nutritional composition of a single product or to better compare two food products. More information on sugars will also be made available (Government of Canada, 14 December 2016).
Click here for the full news release.
Click here for an illustrated explanation of the changes.
Click here for the Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations.

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