Bill C-602
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2nd Session, 41st Parliament,
62-63 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014
house of commons of canada
BILL C-602
An Act to amend the Food and Drugs Act (sugar content labelling)
R.S., c. F-27
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1. Section 5 of the Food and Drugs Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):
Sugar content
(3) A prepackaged product, as defined in the regulations, that does not have a label on the front of it that contains the prescribed information with respect to its sugar content — and that is of the prescribed dimensions and displays the prescribed spacing and use of upper and lower case letters and bold type — shall be deemed to be labelled contrary to subsection (1).
2. Subsection 30(1) of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (b):
(b.1) respecting the labelling of a prepackaged product with respect to its sugar content, including the dimensions of the label, the spacing and the use of upper — and lower — case letters and bold type;
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons