On Clause 65.1,
By unanimous consent, Rose-Marie Ur moved, — That Bill C-27 be amended by adding after line 3 on page 32 the following new clause:“65.1 The Act is amended by adding the following after section 18:
Dairy ingredients
18.1(1) No person shall market an agricultural product using a dairy term on the label unless that product contains the dairy ingredient represented by the dairy term.
Substitute product
(2) No person shall market an agricultural product that has a dairy term on the label if the agricultural product is intended to substitute for a dairy product.
Exceptions
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply
(a) where the label of an agricultural product contains the term “artificial”, “simulated” or “imitation” together with the name of a dairy ingredient and the word “flavour”, and where that product has the artificial flavour of that dairy ingredient added to it;
(b) where the label of an agricultural product contains the term “flavour” or “flavoured” together with the name of a dairy ingredient, and where that flavour is derived from that dairy ingredient;
(c) where the nature of the agricultural product is clear from traditional usage or from the name by which the agricultural product is generally known; or
(d) where the name of a dairy ingredient is used to describe a sensory characteristic, other than taste, of the agricultural product.
(e) where, in the case of, an agricultural product that is derived from the normal lacteal secretion obtained from the mammary glands of any animal other than a cow, genus Bos, the product is labelled so as to identify that animal.
Definitions
(4) For the purposes of this section,
(a)“dairy ingredient” means butter, buttermilk, butter oil, cream, cheese, ice cream, milk, sour cream, whey, yogourt or any other thing prescribed;
(b) “dairy term” means a word, name, designation, symbol or pictorial which refers to a dairy ingredient; and
(c)“milk” means the normal lacteal secretion obtained from the mammary gland of an animal.”
Debate arose thereon.