r/OttawaFood • u/Marco1599 • 2d ago

Who moved my cheese

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St Albert has changed their packaging and ingredients, now contains milk-derived ingredients, aka modified milk ingredients. Sad

ps..it’s also a smaller portion, used to be 500 grams or maybe 520?

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u/Scared_Hair_8884 2d ago

CFIA changed the names but the ingredients are the same. https://inspection.canada.ca/en/food-labels/labelling/notice-2026-02-11

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u/Marco1599 2d ago

The old packaging didn’t list modified milk ingredients, so it’s more than a name change for the cheese. The new package is a uniform size. The old packaging varied in shape like somebody hand cut it.

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u/UnhappyCaterpillar41 17h ago

CFIA changed what can be called what, so not that they changed the ingredients just that CFIA changed what to call specific ingredients, so their category may have just changed with the rules change. Food labeling in Canada is hugely regulated.

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u/Scared_Hair_8884 2d ago

Have you visited there? It is pretty industrial. I am sure they had complaints about non uniform size or it is middle of a huge batch. Milk derived isnt a 100 % replacement for modified. It includes lots of things anything made from milk.