Safe Food for Canadians Regulations

Marginal note:Prepackaged edible meat products

286 The label of a prepackaged edible meat product must bear on the principal display panel a statement that indicates that the meat product must be kept refrigerated or kept frozen, as the case may be, unless the meat product

• (a) is in a hermetically sealed package and is commercially sterile;

• (b) is dried to attain a water activity of 0.85 or less;

• (c) has a pH of 4.6 or less;

• (d) is packaged in salt or a saturated salt solution; or

• (e) is fermented and has a pH of 5.3 or less, and a water activity of 0.90 or less, at the end of the fermentation.