Canada label rules for licorice, chews
What a licorice, chews label must carry to be accepted in Canada — the reference amount, the panel format, the languages, and the law each of them comes from. Every figure below is the one LabelYog's engine uses to build the label itself.
| Reference amount | 40 gHealth Canada's Table of Reference Amounts for Food fixes this per food category. The Table is incorporated by reference into the Food and Drug Regulations (current version 18 October 2024), so the serving size on your pack is derived from it — not from the portion you happen to sell. Mapped to Table item U.1: “Candies, confectionaries and chocolates, fudge, halva, chocolate bars”. |
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| Serving measured on the basis of | discreteHow LabelYog measures a serving of this category — by weight, by volume, or as a countable unit. |
| How this amount was set | Listed statutory categoryThis category is a listed row in Health Canada's Table of Reference Amounts, incorporated by reference into the Food and Drug Regulations — the amount is not inferred. |
| Panel formats accepted | CA-STD, CA-HORIZ, CA-Linear, CA-Simp, CA-DualWhich nutrition panel layouts this market will accept. |
| Languages required | English, FrenchSFCR (SOR/2018-108) s.206 with FDR B.01.012(2) — both official languages, subject to the exemptions in B.01.012(3)-(11). A third language IS permitted alongside. In Quebec the Charter of the French language requires French on every inscription |
| Legal instrument | Food and Drug Regulations (Canada) — nutrition labelling; reference amounts incorporated by reference (Table, 18 Oct 2024)The law the panel is built to. |
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Why the reference amount decides everything
In Canada the serving size printed on a pack is not chosen by the person selling it. Health Canada's Table of Reference Amounts for Food — incorporated by reference into the Food and Drug Regulations — fixes a reference amount for each food category, and the declared serving size, and therefore every number in the Nutrition Facts table, is derived from that amount. Declaring against the portion you happen to sell, rather than the amount the regulation names, is a common reason a label is sent back.
What LabelYog does with this
Enter the recipe once. The engine applies the reference amount above, rounds each nutrient the way this regulator requires (they do not agree with one another), builds the panel in an accepted format, and fits it inside the trim size you already print. The same recipe can then be re-pointed at another market without re-entering anything.
Before any of that costs you anything: the nutrition panel generator, the barcode generator and the QR generator are free and need no account at all. What a paid plan adds is set out on pricing, and the comparison page says what we think actually decides the choice — including the cases where the answer is not us. Every market we build for has its own rule-book page.
Related label rules
The same product, other market: licorice, chews label rules for Brazil — the reference amount and the panel format differ, and the page states both.
Other confectionery categories in Canada, each with its own reference amount:
- peanut brittle, nut clusters
- praline, truffle
- toffee, caramel, fudge
- chocolate block (dark, milk, white)
- gummies, jelly candy
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