Summary:
These Food and Drug Regulations provides for the regulation of food, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices. These regulations implement the Food and Drugs Act. It has also been amended by other normative, and the changes are reflected in the text.
Description:
For FULL purposes, these Regulations provide on topics related to food products and their labels (Division II, Articles 7-28), as well as, advertisement (Division I, Articles 3-4).
In this sense, the norm bring definitions on food related topics (Article 7), such as:
- Artificial (non-nutritive) sweetening agent: “any chemical compound which is sweet to the taste but does not include sugar or other carbohydrate or polyhydric alcohols”.
- Food addictive: “any substance, including any source of radiation, the use of which results, or may reasonably be expected to result, in it or its by-products becoming a part of or affecting the characteristics of a food”. It also states some exceptions to it.
Moreover, the Regulations establish general requirements for food labelling, composition, and the use of additives. Foods containing added colourings or flavourings must be identified as “artificially coloured”, “artificially flavoured”, or both. For instance, it regulates statements or claims relating to carbohydrate or sugar reduced diets, calorie reduced diets and sodium content. (Articles 24-26)
In addition, regarding advertising, it states that it is prohibited unless it complies with the Food and Drug Act. (Article 3(1))