Labelling requirements for fish and fish products

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• Overview
• Common name - fish and fish products
  • CFIA fish list
  • Generic common names
  • Hermetically sealed fish products
  • Surimi
  • Fish oils
• Additional terms
  • Uniform rectangular portions of breaded minced fish
  • Hermetically sealed tuna
  • Salmon
  • Lobster
  • Salted fish
  • Bivalve molluscs
  • Use of filtered smoke
• Net quantity - fish and fish products
  • Shrimp cocktail
  • Oysters
  • Mackerel
  • Fish in hermetically sealed containers
• Labelling for storage instructions and handling
  • Smoked or liquid smoked fish
  • Heat treated non-RTE fish products
  • Previously frozen fish and fish products
• Nutrition labelling - fish and fish products
  • Sport fish
• Name and principal place of business – fish and fish products
• Country of origin - fish and fish products
• Grade name, class name and size designation
• Lot code
• Voluntary claims and statements
  • Light salted
  • Method of production claims (e.g. sustainable, dolphin safe, etc.)
  • Use of the inspection legend
• Additional information
  • Decisions
• Definitions
  • Consumer prepackaged
  • Drained weight
  • Fish
  • Fish product
  • Foreign state
  • Grade name
  • Hermetically sealed package
  • Person
  • Prepackaged
  • Principal display panel
  • Principal display surface
  • Whitefish