CFIA Industry Advisory for Bilingual Labelling on Treated Seed

Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/06/2018 - 10:46

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has implemented regulatory changes that require information related to health and safety on labels of seed treated with pest control products to appear in both official languages. These changes mean that, for treated seed sold in Canada, the health and safety information regarding the pest control product must be labelled in both French and English.

The CFIA recognizes that companies will have costs related to the new bilingual labelling requirements. To help ease potential burden, the CFIA is providing a two-year implementation phase to allow companies to use up their existing inventories of unilingual labels.

  • The phase-in period started on April 23, 2018 and will end on April 22, 2020.
  • On April 23, 2020, companies must fully implement the new bilingual labelling requirements.

Further details are available on the CFIA website. If you have any questions, please contact cfia.seed-semence.acia@canada.ca.