When does Health Canada require genetically-modified foods to be labelled?
As with all foods, including foods derived through genetic modification, Health Canada requires special labelling to address health and safety issues which might be mitigated through labelling such as identifying the presence of an allergen. Labelling is also required to identify compositional or nutritional changes. In these situations, labelling is required to alert consumers or susceptible groups in the population at large. For example, oil derived from high oleic soybean lines must be listed in food ingredient lists by the common name “high oleic soybean oil”, to distinguish it from regular soybean oil.
