Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (Beer): SOR/2019-98

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 153, Number 9

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SOR/2019-98 April 15, 2019

FOOD AND DRUGS ACT

P.C. 2019-323 April 12, 2019

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Health, pursuant to subsection 30(1) footnotea of the Food and Drugs Act footnoteb, makes the annexed Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (Beer).

Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (Beer)

Amendments

1 Subsection B.01.010.1(5) of the Food and Drug Regulations footnote1 is repealed.

2 Subsection B.01.010.2(5) of the Regulations is repealed.

3 Section B.02.130 of the Regulations is replaced by the following:

B.02.130 [S]. (1) Beer

• (a) shall be the product of the alcoholic fermentation by yeast, or a mixture of yeast and other micro-organisms, an infusion of barley or wheat malt and hops or hop extract in potable water;
• (b) shall contain at most 4% of residual sugars; and
• (c) may have added to it during the course of manufacture any of the following ingredients:
  • (i) cereal grain,
  • (ii) honey, maple syrup, fruit, fruit juice or any other source of carbohydrates,
  • (iii) herbs and spices,
  • (iv) salt,
  • (v) flavouring preparations,
  • (vi) pre-isomerized hop extract,
  • (vii) reduced isomerized hop extract, and
  • (viii) food additives to which a marketing authorization applies and that are set out in the Lists of Permitted Food Additives published on the Health Canada website.