(ii) the labelling of the container is not misleading as to the nature, quantity, quality, composition, character, safety, value, variety or origin of the food product, and meets the requirements of the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act and the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Regulations, and

Bill S-11 will replace and modify the existing statutes governing food safety, packaging and labelling, and inspection under the Meat Inspection Act, the Fish Inspection Act, the Agricultural Products Act, and the food-labelling provisions of the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act.

The CFIA would also continue to administer and enforce the provisions of the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act as they relate to food as defined in section 2 of the Food and Drugs Act (Whereas the CFIA was initially responsible for only the enforcement of the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act as it relates to food as defined in section 2 of the Food and Drugs Act, responsibility for the administration of that Act as it relates to food was legally transferred to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada from Industry Canada by virtue of a 1999 Order under the Public Service Rearrangement and Transfer of ...[+++]Duties Act. The relevant Order, P.C. 1999-534 of 25 March 1999, pursuant to section 2(a) of the above Act, transferred to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food all the powers, duties and functions of the Minister of Industry under the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act in relation to food).

Summary code: Consumers / Product labelling and packaging / Non-Food product labelling Energy / Energy efficiency / Energy efficiency of products

...hat is the total number, for each of the fiscal years from 2005-2006 to 2011-2012, across Canada as a whole and broken down by province, of (i) inspectors at the CFIA, (ii) newly hired inspectors at the CFIA, (iii) inspectors who retired from the CFIA, (iv) employees assigned to the CFIA Process, Formulation and Label Registration Unit; (b) what is the total number, for each of the fiscal years from 2005-2006 to 2011-2012, across Canada as a whole and broken down by province, of inspections conducted by a CFIA inspector of a product at a dealer, broken down by (i) retailer, (ii) manufacturer, (iii) processor, (iv) producer, (v) business engaged in importing any product, (vi) business engaged in packing any product, (vii) business engage ...[+++]d in selling any product; (c) for the answer to each part of (b), was the inspection at (i) a site randomly selected, (ii) a site in which the inspection was pre-arranged with any of the individuals or groups identified in (b); (d) for the answer to each part of (c), was the reason for the inspection related to (i) misleading advertising or labelling of exaggerated or unproven nutrition and health claims, (ii) misleading labelling information of the country of origin claims; (e) for the answer to each part of (b), (c) and (d), how many, (i) products or any labelling, packaging or advertising materials were seized and detained by the inspectors, (ii) cases of non-compliance were identified during inspections; (f) for the answer to each part of (e), how many inspections lead to (i) the prosecution of an individual, (ii) the prosecution of a dealer, (iii) a summary conviction or a conviction on indictments of an individual with a fine, (iv) a summary conviction or a conviction on indictments of a dealer with a fine, (v) a summary conviction or a conviction on indictments of an individual with a prison term? ...

For example, the Food and Drugs Act and the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act prohibit false and misleading labels, but what constitutes false and misleading labels in the dairy context is not fleshed out (1420) The dairy products regulations made under the Canada Agricultural Products Act do contain labelling requirements, but these only apply to standardized dairy products, for example what has to be on the label of cheddar cheese once it has met the standard.