Prohibition of substances

(1) No chemical substance may be used in the preparation of any product unless it is approved under the Schedule to these Regulations or by an inspector in specific cases. Schedule. (2) No product shall bear or contain any substance which would render it adulterated or which is not approved in the Schedule to these Regulations or by an inspector in specific cases. Schedule. (3) Chemical preservatives are any chemicals that when added to meat food products tend to prevent or retard deterioration thereof. The following substances may be added to products: common salt, approved sugars (sucrose, cane or beet sugar, maple sugar, dextrose, invert sugar, honey, corn syrup solids, corn syrup and glucose syrup), wood smoke, vinegar, flavourings, spices, or oils extracted from spices, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, potassium nitrate, potassium nitrite, and other substances specified in the Schedule to these Regulations. Schedule. 90 Food and Drugs (4) Other harmless artificial flavourings may be added to products with the approval of an inspector in specific cases. Artificial flavourings are those that contain any sapid or aromatic constituent, which was manufactured by a process of synthesis or other similar artifice. (5) Colouring matter and dyes other than those specified in the Schedule to these Regulations may be applied to products, mixed with rendered fat, applied to natural and artificial casings, and applied to such casings enclosing products, if approved by an inspector in specific cases. When any colouring matter or dye is added to meat fat shortening containing artificial flavouring, the product shall be packed in conventional round shortening containers having a capacity no greater than three pounds. Artificial colourings are those containing any dye or pigment which was manufactured by a process of synthesis or similar artifice or a colouring which was manufactured by extracting a natural dye or pigment from a plant or other material in which such dye or pigment was naturally produced. (6) The substances specified in the Schedule to these Regulations are acceptable for use in the preparation purposes indicated, within the limits of the amounts stated and under the other conditions specified in this regulation. (7) No substance may be used in or on any product if it conceals damage or inferiority or makes the product appear to be better or of greater value than it is. (8) Paprika or oleoresin paprika may not be used in or on fresh meat, such as steaks, or comminuted fresh meat food products, such as chopped and formed meat steaks or patties; or in any other meat food products consisting of fresh meat (with or without seasoning), except chorizo sausage and Italian brand sausage, and except other meat food products in which paprika or oleoresin paprika is permitted as an ingredient in a standard of identity or composition approved by an inspector. Food and Drugs 91 (9) Sorbic acid, calcium sorbate, sodium sorbate, and other salts of sorbic acid may not be used in cooked sausage or any other product; sulfurous acid and salts of sulfurous acid may not be used in or on any product and niacin or nicotinamide may not be used in or on fresh products, except that potassium sorbate, propylparaben (propyl p-hydroxybenzoate), calcium propionate, sodium propionate, benzoic acid, and sodium benzoate may be used in or on any product only as provided in the Schedule to these Regulations or as approved by an inspector in specific cases. Schedule. (10) Any carcass, part thereof, meat product shall be classed as adulterated if one or more of the following circumstances applyAdulteration. (a) if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which renders it injurious to health; but in the case where such substance is not an added substance such articles shall not be considered adulterated under this clause if the quantity of such substance in or on such articles does not ordinarily render injurious to health; (b) (i) if it bears or contains (by reason of administration of any substances to the live animal or otherwise) any added poisonous or added deleterious substance (other than one which is (a) a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity; (b) a food additive, or (c) a colour additive which may, in the judgment of the Minister, make such article unfit for human food; (ii) if it is, in whole or in part, a raw agricultural commodity and such commodity bears or contains a pesticide chemical which is unsafe; 92 Food and Drugs (iii) if it bears or contains any food additive which is unsafe; (iv) if it bears or contains any colour additive which is unsafe, provided that an article which is not deemed adulterated under (ii), (iii) or (iv) shall nevertheless be deemed adulterated if the use of the pesticide chemical, food additive or colour additive in or on such article is prohibited by the regulations in official establishments; (c) if it consists in whole or part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance or is for any reason unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food; (d) if it has been prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health; (e) if it is in whole or part the product of an animal which has died otherwise than by slaughter; (f) if its container is composed in whole or in part of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health; (g) if it has been intentionally subjected to radiation, unless the use of the radiation was in conformity with a regulation; (h) if any valuable constituent has been in whole or part omitted or abstracted therefrom or if any substance has been substituted therefor, or Food and Drugs 93 if damage or inferiority has been concealed in a manner, or if any substance has been added thereto or mixed or packed therewith so as to increase its bulk or weight or reduce its quality or strength or make it appear better or of greater value than it is; or (i) if it is margarine containing an animal fat any of the raw materials used therein consisted in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substances or if is otherwise adulterated.