Health Canada has updated their approach to the use of foliar sprays and “modified atmosphere packaging” for cannabis products, effective immediately.
Beginning today, cultivation licence holders will be allowed to use foliar applications to plants for the purpose of applying nutrients or even watering and hydrating plants. In addition, processors will now be able to package products using certain Modified Atmospheric Packaging (MAP) that are intended to help ensure product freshness and shelf life.
The gasses used to displace air from packaging must still meet certain requirements, such as qualifying under food grade applications as for a food. In addition, each gas used for MAP should meet at least the food grade specifications listed for that gas in the most recent edition of the Combined Compendium of Food Additive Specifications or the Food Chemicals Codex.
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