Bill C-239

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	1st Session, 36th Parliament, 46 Elizabeth II, 1997
	The House of Commons of Canada
	BILL C-239
	An Act to amend the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act (recombinant hormones)
R.S., c. C-38; R.S., cc. 27, 31 (1st Supp.); 1992, c. 1; 1995, c. 1; 1997, c. 6	Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
	*1. The Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act* is amended by adding the following after section 4:**
Labelling for prepackaged products	4.1 No prepackaged food product shall be sold that contains an ingredient derived from an animal to which a prescribed recombinant hormone has been administered unless that product has applied to it a label containing a declaration in the prescribed form
	(a) stating that the prepackaged product contains an ingredient derived from an animal to which a prescribed recombinant hormone has been administered; and
	(b) identifying the prescribed recombinant hormone.
	2. Subsection 18(1) of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (e):
	(e.1) defining ``prescribed recombinant hormone'';
	(e.2) prescribing the form and manner of the declaration referred to in section 4.1.

BILL C-239