Health and Nutrition

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax awareness campaign entitled Rethink Your Drink: Encouraging Healthier Beverage Choices was launched on August 11, 2022. In-store communic...Learn More

Last month, Health Canada revealed a new front-of-pack food labeling system that features a magnifying glass icon directing customers to saturated fats, sugars, and sodium totals in food. The Fro...Learn More

Final regulations for Supplemented Foods were recently released along with guidance materials for industry. Supplemented Foods are products with added supplemental ingredients, such as vitamins, miner...Learn More

Final regulations for Front-of-Package Nutrition Labelling were released last week, along with draft Guidance materials for industry. The regulations and Guidance provide details on when and how the n...Learn More

On Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 1pm ET, RCC members who sell sugar-sweetened beverages are invited to a presentation from government officials as they demonstrate their marketing and information campai...Learn More

Health Canada published the final regulations to amend the Natural Health Products Regulations on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, which update labelling requirements for products such as toothpaste and hand ...Learn More

In late 2021, the government lowered the monthly import limit of pre-packaged milk coming into the province for processors and producers. The limit was lowered from five percent to three percent witho...Learn More

In Conversation with Retail Leaders in Canada is an exciting series featuring in-depth conversations between Retail Council of Canada President and CEO Diane J. Brisebois and Canada’s top retail lea...Learn More

Health Canada’s policy on “Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-to-Eat Foods” sets forth control measures for the pathogen in high-risk foods, and provides retailers with certainty on application of ...Learn More

RCC members will be meeting with officials from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Health Canada this Wednesday, April 27, 2022 to discuss emerging issues that will impact retailers who sell food...Learn More