Meat Loaf, Meat Roll, Meat Lunch or Luncheon Meat shall be fresh or preserved meat that is comminuted, cooked and pressed into shape, and may contain a dried skim milk product obtained from skim milk by the reduction of its calcium content and a corresponding increase in its sodium content, in an amount not exceeding 3% of the finished food, as well as filler, meat binder, salt, sweetening agents, glucono delta lactone, spices, other seasonings, milk, eggs, a gelling agent, sodium acetate, sodium diacetate and partially defatted beef fatty tissue or partially defatted pork fatty tissue, and shall have a ...[+++]total protein content of not less than 11%.

Potted Meat, Meat Paste or Meat Spread shall be fresh or preserved meat that is comminuted and cooked, and may contain meat binder, salt, sweetening agents, spices, other seasonings, a gelling agent, sodium acetate and sodium diacetate and shall have a total protein content of not less than 9%.

B.14.030 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) and section B.14.030A, no person shall sell a prepared meat or prepared meat by-product with a meat protein content of less than 1.5 percentage points below the total protein requirement for that food.

10 ‘protein’ means the protein content calculated using the formula: protein = total Kjeldahl nitrogen × 6,25.

The concentration of nitrogen in the product shall not exceed 3 % total N (by weight) and inorganic N must not exceed 20 % total N (or organic N ≥ 80 %).

When the organoleptic examination reveals any doubt as to the freshness of the fishery products, samples may be taken and subjected to laboratory tests to determine the levels of total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N) and trimethylamine nitrogen (TMA-N).