Food and Drug Regulations — B.01.001
toire des modèles de TVN ) Directory of Nutrition Symbol Specifications means the document entitled Nutrition Labelling — Directory of Nutrition Symbol Specifications , published by the Government of Canada on its website, as amended from time to time; ( Répertoire des spécifications des symboles nutritionnels ) durable life means the period, commencing on the day on which a prepackaged product is packaged for retail sale, during which the product, when it is stored under conditions appropriate to that product, will retain, without any appreciable deterioration, its normal wholesomeness, palatability, nutritional value and any other qualities claimed for it by the manufacturer; ( durée de conservation ) durable life date means the date on which the durable life of a prepackaged product ends; ( date limite de conservation ) energy value means, in respect of a food, the amount of energy made available to a person’s body when the chemical constituents of the food, including protein, fat, carbohydrate and alcohol, are metabolized following ingestion of the food by the person; ( valeur énergétique ) extended meat product means a meat product to which a meat product extender has been added; ( produit de viande avec allongeur ) extended poultry product means a poultry product to which a poultry product extender has been added; ( produit de volaille avec allongeur ) fish product means fish or prepared fish; ( produit de poisson ) flavouring preparation includes any food for which a standard is set out in Volume 9 of the Food Compositional Standards Document; ( préparation aromatisante ) food additive means any substance 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, but does not include (a) any nutritive material that is used, recognized or commonly sold as an article or ingredient of food; (b) vitamins, mineral nutrients and amino acids, other than those substances set out in the Lists of Permitted Food Additives; (b.1) supplemental ingredients; (c) spices, seasonings and flavouring preparations; (d) agricultural chemicals, other than those substances set out in the Lists of Permitted Food Additives; (e) food packaging materials and components thereof; and (f) drugs recommended for administration to animals that may be consumed as food; ( additif alimentaire ) food colour means any food additive used to add or restore colour to a food; ( colorant alimentaire ) Food Compositional Standards Document means the document entitled Canadian Food Compositional Standards , prepared by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and published on its website, as amended from time to time; ( Document sur les normes de composition des aliments ) fully hydrogenated , in respect of a fat or oil, means a fat or oil that is hydrogenated and has an iodine value of 4 or less; ( entièrement hydrogénée ) functional substitute for a sweetening agent means, in respect of a prepackaged product, a food — other than any sweetener or sweetening agent, including any sugars — that replaces a sweetening agent and that has one or more of the functions of the sweetening agent including, sweetening, thickening, texturing or caramelizing; ( substitut fonctionnel d’un agent édulcorant ) gelling agent [Repealed, SOR/2024-244, s. 2] hermetically sealed container means a container designed and intended to be secure against the entry of microorganisms, including spores; ( récipient hermétiquement scellé ) infant means an individual who is under the age of one year; ( bébé ) infant food means a food that is labelled or advertised for consumption by infants; ( aliment pour bébés ) ingredient means an individual unit of food that is combined as an individual unit of food with one or more other individual units of food to form an integral unit of food that is sold as a prepackaged product; ( ingrédient ) list of cautionary statements means the list shown on the label of a suppl