Baking Association of Canada / Association canadienne de la boulangerie
Registration:
38
of
55
(2015-02-12
to
2015-07-16)
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Canada-European Union Trade Negotiations: providing information and comment to Canadian government regarding potential impact of proposed trade negotiations on Canada's baking sector.
Policies or Program
- Health Canada Voluntary Sodium Reduction: providing information related to baking industries reduction progress and challenges.
- Health Canada has proposed new allowable mycotoxin levels in wheat sold for food consumption. Advocating to ensure Canadian Food Inspection Agency monitoring and enforcement does not allow grain exceeding thresholds to enter food supply.
- Public Health Agency consultation Our Health, Our Future: A National Dialogue on Healthy Weights including Curbing Childhood Obesity relating to the role food processors may play in the contribution to healthy diets
- Responding to Health Canada call for data on trans fat use in the food supply
- Responding to Health Canada's data call on the adventitious presence of soy in the food supply
Regulation
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency Regulatory Modernization Proposal: provide baking industry input on proposed changes
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency's Imported Food Sector Regulatory Proposal which would require the licensing of importers of identified foods and food ingredients
- Health Canada and Canadian Food Inspection Agency review of adventitious presence of soy and mustard allergens in wheat flour with the objective of determining allowable limits
- Health Canada's Food Labelling Modernization Consultation: providing information and comment on how the proposed changes would impact Canadian bakers.
- Provide baking industry perspective to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's consultation on proposed regulatory changes to Canada's grain variety and registration system
- Regulatory Roadmap for Health Products and Foods; Provide baking industry perspective related to proposed amendments to the Food and Drug Regulations that would modernize and render more efficient the setting of regulatory limits and prohibitions for contaminants and other adulterating substances in foods.