The amendments change the requirements for how a beer is defined (e.g. sugar content, which is measurable) and impose administrative reporting requirements for some stakeholders. Therefore, all stakeholders will need to take some time to become familiar with the new regulatory requirements.

(e) Labour cost of submitting an application to Health Canada on use of food additives

The updated beer compositional standard allows some products that are currently unstandardized to be marketed as a beer. This may result in the need for some stakeholders to apply to Health Canada for the use of certain food additives in their beer. The application process requires that information be submitted to Health Canada. footnote4

Methodology

An industry survey was the primary data source used by the CFIA to determine the impacts of the regulatory changes. The survey was distributed to 800 beer industry stakeholders (associations, manufacturers and importers) in July 2017. In total, 37 responses were received and breweries who respo