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House Hansard - 320

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 29, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 320 - May/29/24
Mr. Yves Perron
  • May/29/24 11:00:42 p.m.
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Madam Chair, when it comes to front-of-package labelling, the minister is aware of the situation, because I spoke to him recently. I want to talk to him about the cranberry situation. It is a healthy fruit, but it often has added sugar. Sugar is added because, once the fruit is dried, it has a bitter taste that needs to be balanced out. Cranberry farmers are really worried about seeing their products labelled as if they were just candy, as if they contained a lot of sugar. Is the minister prepared to consider some sort of interim or exceptional measure? Could he explain to me why, when people in the industry proposed something like France's Nutri-Score system, which assigns each food the letter A, B, C, D or E and which would assign cranberries a B or C rather than an E, the CFIA did not take that into account?
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