Regulations Amending the Cannabis Regulations (Listing Ingredients for Edible Cannabis): SOR/2022-145
Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 156, Number 14
Registration
SOR/2022-145 June 21, 2022
CANNABIS ACT
P.C. 2022-709 June 20, 2022
Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Health, pursuant to subsection 139(1) of the Cannabis Actfootnote a, makes the annexed Regulations Amending the Cannabis Regulations (Listing Ingredients for Edible Cannabis).
Regulations Amending the Cannabis Regulations (Listing Ingredients for Edible Cannabis)
Amendments
1 Subsection 105(1) of the Cannabis Regulations footnote 1 is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:
- Common Names for Ingredients and Components Document
- means the document entitled Common Names for Ingredients and Components, prepared by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and published on its website, as amended from time to time. (Document sur les noms usuels d’ingrédients et de constituants)
2 (1) Subparagraph 132.21(1)(c)(iii) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:
- (iii) set out by the applicable name set out in column 2 of Table 1 of the Common Names for Ingredients and Components Document or, if none applies, by their common name;
(2) Subparagraph 132.21(1)(f)(i) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:
- (i) set out by one of the common names “sulfites”, “sulfiting agents”, “sulphites” or “sulphiting agents”, or individually by the applicable name set out in the applicable item, column 1 of the applicable Table of the Common Names for Ingredients and Components Document,
(3) Subsection 132.21(2) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:
Exception — ingredients and constituents shown collectively
(2) Despite paragraph (1)(c), the ingredients and the constituents set out in column 1 of Table 2 of the Common Names for Ingredients and Components Document may be shown collectively in the list of ingredients by the common name set out in column 2 of that Table, unless one of the ingredients or constituents in column 1 is shown separately in the list of ingredients by its common name.
3 Paragraph 132.23(1)(e) of the Regulations is replaced by the following:
- (e) for a food allergen from a food referred to in one of paragraphs (h) to (j) of the definition food allergen in subsection B.01.010.1(1) of the Food and Drug Regulations or derived from that food, by the common name of the food set out in the applicable item, column 2 of the applicable Table of the Common Names for Ingredients and Components Document; and
Coming into Force
4 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.
N.B. The Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement for these Regulations appears following SOR/2022-143, Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations.