Canadian Food Regulations - SNI Inc.

15 Feb 2022

Are your NFts Ready?

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In 2016, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced new food labelling regulations. Recognizing the industry would need time to pivot, the CFIA allowed for a five-year transition phase, ending December 2021. As a result of additional challenges, an extra year was given before enforcement action would be applied, but…

Take the Quiz: Are Your Labels Compliant?

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Canadian Food Labelling Challenge – Take our quiz! Are your Labels in Compliance with Canada’s Food Labelling Requirements? QUESTION 1: THE NET QUANTITY OF A PREPACKAGED FOOD PRODUCT IS 355.2 GRAMS. WHAT IS THE PROPER BILINGUAL LABEL DECLARATION? 355.2 g 350 g 355 g 0.35 kg QUESTION 2: WHICH OF…

The Future of Meat is…. Lab-Grown?

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Lab-grown meat (also known as clean meat, cultured meat, cellular agriculture, or in-vitro meat) is simply flesh that is grown outside of an animal’s body. The meat itself is real, but it is obtained without slaughter. Aiming to disrupt the conventional ways of producing animal products, the goal of lab-grown…