Health Canada backs down from nutrition warning labels for ground meat after criticism

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New regulations will require that most foods containing more than 15 per cent of the recommended daily intake of sodium be labelled

Health Canada will be exempting ground meat and poultry from the long-awaited stricter nutrition labelling regulations set to be in place by 2026, after previous consideration in the regulatory framework prompted fierce criticism from meat producers and stakeholders.

Sylvain Charlebois, professor of food policy and distribution at Dalhousie University, said that, like many others, he was “pleasantly surprised” and said Health Canada had made the right decision. “Whole cuts of meat and ground beef are not the key dietary issue we need to be concerned about, it is the highly processed foods that are the most concerning from our perspective,” he said.Article content

The new indication is meant to be a complement to the nutrition facts table and make it easier for consumers to make healthier choices when shopping for food. Ground meats were originally considered under the policy since they are not exempt from providing a nutrition facts table like whole cuts of meat are. That decision left the meat industry scratching its head, since ground meat is a natural single-ingredient product just like meat cuts are.

“Not exempting ground meat would have made meat more expensive in Canada,” said Charlebois. “And when the food inflation rates are at 10%, that’s the last thing Canadians need right now.”

 

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