The ingredients and chemicals that go into the food and consumer products that Canadians enjoy are submitted for rigorous review and testing, and must comply with a wide number of regulatory standards. In fact, our products are governed by over 400 federal and provincial pieces of legislation, as well as thousands of regulations and self-imposed standards such as voluntary and mandated labeling, consumer education initiatives, and codes of marketing practices.

Canadians can be proud that our country’s standards are the highest in the world. They can also be secure with the knowledge that every product or ingredient has worked its way though Canada’s regulatory processes and a series of industry-by-industry standards that each producer or importer must comply with, before it reaches the consumer’s shelf.

Canada is in fact leading the world in its review of substances in commercial use as a basis for informed decision-making. Our world-leading position results from collaboration between government and industry with input from environmental groups.