

The following products are exempt from declaring a list of their ingredients: Exemptions Prepackaged products that do not require a list of ingredients For further details, refer to Manner of declaring. The Food and Drug Regulations (FDR) specify the manner in which ingredients and components must be declared, including grouping sugars-based ingredients, common names, and declaring food allergens, gluten and added sulphites. A cross-contamination statement may be declared on the label of a prepackaged food when, despite all reasonable measures, there is the unintended presence of food allergens in the food. Added sulphites at levels of 10 ppm or more, and that are not already required to be shown in the list of ingredients, must be declared by their prescribed source names. įood allergens, gluten and added sulphites must be declared, provided there are no exemptions or exceptions. Ingredients must be declared in descending order of proportion by weight, as determined before they are combined to make the food. For more information, refer to Exemptions. Functional substitute for a sweetening agentĪll prepackaged products with more than 1 ingredient must declare their ingredients and components in a list of ingredients, unless they are exempt.Food allergen source, gluten source and added sulphites statement.Annex 2: examples of ingredients for which grouping with sugars is not required.List of sugars-based ingredients that are functional substitutes for sweetening agents Examples of sugars-based ingredients that are sweetening agents Examples of sugars-based ingredients that are monosaccharide, disaccharide or a combination of these Annex 1: examples of sugars-based ingredients that require grouping.Food additives in the list of ingredients.Flexibility in the declaration of a list of ingredients.Food allergens, gluten and added sulphites.List of ingredients and allergens on food labels On this page
