canada alcohol
Why don&#39;t alcoholic beverages have the ingredients list?
<p>Most alcoholic beverages (such as beers and wines) don't list the ingredients or nutritional information. Why is this? Is there a special exception for alcoholic beverages?</p>

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<p>Is there a special exception for alcoholic beverages?</p>
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<p><a href="https://inspection.canada.ca/food-labels/labelling/industry/alcoholic-beverages/eng/1624281662154/1624281662623?chap=0" rel="noreferrer">Yes</a></p>
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<p>Standardized alcoholic beverages (those with compositional standards in Division 2 of the FDR such as beer, wine, rum and bourbon whiskey) are exempt from the requirement to show a list of ingredients on the label [B.01.008(2)(f), FDR].<br />
This also applies to icewine which, in addition to meeting the prescribed standard in Volume 8 of the Canadian Standards of Identity document, also needs to meet the wine standard in Division 2 of the FDR.</p>
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<p>But this only applies to standardized alcohol (as laid out in <a href="https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/C.R.C.,_c._870/page-19.html#h-569708" rel="noreferrer">B.02</a> of the Food and Drugs Regulations)</p>
<p>They are also exempt from the nutrition facts if they have an alcohol content of more than 0.5% :</p>
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<p>Beverages with an alcohol content of more than 0.5% are usually exempt from carrying a Nutrition Facts table [B.01.401(2)(b)(i), FDR].</p>
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<p>Except in the cases where this doesn't apply (<a href="https://inspection.canada.ca/food-labels/labelling/industry/nutrition-labelling/exemptions/eng/1389198015395/1389198098450?chap=3" rel="noreferrer">Reasons for losing the exemption</a>)</p>
