labelling

Question 1

CFIA activities

Answer 1

1. Managing food safety risks
   
   2. Helpin consumers making an healthy choices
   3. Coordinating food recalls
   4. Promoting science-ased regulation
   5. Certifying exports
   6. Regulating agricultural biotechnology
   7. Protecting canada’s plants and animals
2. Inspecting at the border

Question 2

3 exemptions food requiring a label

Answer 2

1. Clerk-served foods packaged upon request of a consumer
   
   2. One-bite confections sold individually
2. Fresh F and V

Question 3

mandatory labelling requirements

Answer 3

1. List of ingredients
   
   2. Best before date
   3. Name and adreess of company
   4. Net quantity
   5. Common name
   6. Nutrition information

** bilingual Fr/En

Question 4

5 exemptions bilingual requirement

Answer 4

1. Dealer name and address
   
   2. Shipping containers/non retail containers
   3. Common name of some alcoholic bevs
   4. Specialty food
      Local foods

Question 5

apple juice, drink..

Answer 5

1. Apple juice: juice from apple (no sweetener added)
   
   2. Apple drink: used if a sweetener is added
   3. Apple juice drink: apple drink, but contains at least 25% of apple juice
   4. Made with XX% fruit juice: when % of juice in the drink is less than 25%
      Has the taste of freshly made apple juice: might not contain real juice; the description is about the taste

Question 6

name of standarized vs modified food

Answer 6

1. Maple syrup vs maple-flavoured syrup
   
   2. Ice cream vs frozen dairy dessert
   3. Chocolate vs chocolatey and chocolate flavoured
   4. Apple sauce vs apple snack
   5. Mayonnaise vs dressing sauce
   6. Processed cheese vs processed cheese product

Question 7

exemptions list of ingredients by weight

Answer 7

1. Spices
   
   2. Seasonings
   3. Fine herbs
   4. Flavourings
   5. Flavour enhancer
   6. Food additives
   7. Vitamins and minerals (except salt)

Question 8

exemptions of sugar grouping in the list of ingredients

Answer 8

1. Sweetening agents packaged as such (honey)
   
   2. Fruit or vegetables juices or blends (orange and tangerine juice)
   3. F or V purées or blend (unsweetened applesauce)
   4. Prepackaged products that contain only ONE sugar-based ingredients that contains the word sugar in its comon name (brown sugar, icing sugar: sugar, cornstarch)
   5. Human milk substitutes and formulated liquid diets

Question 9

causes undeclared allergens

Answer 9

Most common causes:
1. Incomplete cleaning (ingredient cross-over)
2. Labelling error (ingredient omission)
3. Rework with allergen included
4. Ingredients changes/substitutions/additions
Other causes:
1. Wrong product in package
2. Unknown ingredient in raw material
3. Use o incorrect common name (mandelona nuts)

Question 10

priority allergens

Answer 10

1. Peanuts
   
   2. Tree nuts
   3. Milk
   4. Eggs
   5. Soybeans
   6. Fish, shellfish, crustaceans
   7. Sesame seeds
   8. Mustard seed
   9. Wheat and triticale

Plus:
Gluten sulphites

Question 11

tree nuts

Answer 11

1. Almonds
   
   2. Brazil nuts
   3. Cashwews
   4. Hazelnuts (filberts)
   5. Hickory nuts
   6. Macadamia nuts
   7. Pecans
   8. Pine nuts
   9. pistachios
   10. Sheat nuts
   11. walnuts

Question 12

7 foods not requiring NFt

Answer 12

1. Food with insignificant amount (0) of all core nutrients
   
   2. Beverages with more than 0.5% EtOh
   3. Raw, single ingredient meat, poultry, fish, seafood or by product (not ground meat/poultry)
   4. Foods prepared at store
   5. Individual serving for immediate consumption
   6. Food produced off premises, packaged from bulk on retail promise
   7. Very small enterprise (flea market)

Question 13

loss of exemption from NFt

Answer 13

1. Nutritional reference, biological role/function claim, health claim, health logo/symbol
   
   2. Artificial sweeteners, vitamins, minerals added
2. Vitamins and minerals declared as components in ingredient list (except flour)