Exemptions
Reasons for Losing the Exemption
Foods that are usually exempt from carrying a Nutrition Facts table are required to display one (i.e. lose the exemption) when [B.01.401(3), FDR]:
- a vitamin or mineral nutrient is added to the product;
- a vitamin or mineral nutrient is declared as a component of an ingredient (other than flour);
- aspartame, sucralose, neotame or acesulfame-potassium is added to the product
- the presence/addition of sugar alcohols does not cause a loss of exemption
- the product is ground meat, ground meat by-product, ground poultry meat or ground poultry meat by-product; or
- the label or advertisement, made or placed by or on the direction of the manufacturer, contains one or more of the following:
- a reference to the energy value or a nutrient (including constituents of nutrients) set out in the first column of the tables Core Nutrition Information and Additional Nutrition Information. This does not include:
- information required by prepackaged water and ice products; or
- a reference to the common name of an ingredient in the list of ingredients for the product.
- a function claim;
- a health claim;
- a health-related name, statement, logo, symbol, seal of approval or mark (including trade-marks).
- the phrase "nutrition facts", "valeur nutritive" or "valeurs nutritives"; or
- a representation about or implying nutritional or health related properties or nutrient content claims.
- gluten-free and other allergen-free claims are not considered to be nutritional or health-related properties on their own.
- a reference to the energy value or a nutrient (including constituents of nutrients) set out in the first column of the tables Core Nutrition Information and Additional Nutrition Information. This does not include:
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