Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Imported prepackaged fresh fruits or vegetables

• 269 (1) The expression “Product of” or “Produce of” or “produit de”, “Grown in” or “cultivé dans” or “Country of Origin” or “pays d’origine”, followed by the name of the foreign state in which the fresh fruits or vegetables were grown, or other words that clearly indicate that foreign state, must be shown on the principal display panel of imported prepackaged fresh fruits or vegetables in close proximity to the declaration of net quantity or the grade name.

• Marginal note:Prepackaged fruits or vegetables — second container

  (2) If prepackaged fresh fruits or vegetables that are labelled in accordance with this Part are placed inside of a second container and the resulting product is prepackaged fresh fruits or vegetables, other than consumer prepackaged fresh fruits or vegetables, the second container is not required to be labelled with the information referred to in subsection (1) if that information is easily visible and legible without having to open the second container and that information is not obscured by the container.

• Marginal note:Subsequent repackaging

  (3) This section applies whether or not the imported prepackaged fresh fruits or vegetables are subsequently repackaged in Canada.