§ 27

(1) For the purpose of issuing a licence under paragraph 20(1)(b) of the Act, any food is a prescribed food commodity that has been imported, and the storing and handling of a food in its imported condition for the purpose of the exercise of an inspector’s powers under the Act are prescribed activities in respect of that prescribed food commodity.

(2) For the purpose of issuing a licence under paragraph 20(1)(b) of the Act, any food and any food animal are the prescribed food commodities that are to be sent or conveyed from one province to another, and the following activities are prescribed activities in respect of those prescribed food commodities: (a) in the case of a food, manufacturing, processing, treating, preserving, grading, storing, packaging and labelling; and (b) in the case of a food animal, slaughtering.

(3) For the purpose of issuing a licence under paragraph 20(1)(b) of the Act, any food, any food animal, any food commodity referred to in paragraph 17(2)(b) and any food commodity referred to in subsection 17(3) are prescribed food commodities that are to be exported, and the following activities are prescribed activities in respect of those prescribed food commodities: (a) in the case of a food, a food commodity referred to in paragraph 17(2)(b) and a food commodity referred to in subsection 17(3), manufacturing, processing, treating, preserving, grading, storing, packaging and labelling; and (b) in the case of a food animal, slaughtering.