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This sucks, but I can understand both sides here.
Canada has strangely high standards when it comes to food regulations. Especially in restaurants. And lowering those could result in an influx of low quality processed foods entering the market.
On the other hand, the reason it's failing to meet the standard is that it has added vitamin B which feels a bit absurd since those additions are allowed in other products here.
I hope this gets resolved in a way that lets this dude keep selling Vegemite at his shop.
So, uhh...where's the "both sides" to this? "High standards when it comes to food regulations" doesn't work as an excuse for banning healthier food. That's absurd.
Fortification can be used to manipulate some health rating systems. I don't know what system Canada uses, but Health Star is particularly vulnerable to this. Basically you can make a product that's high in fat / salt / sugar look better than it is by adding vitamins. So it makes some kind of sense to restrict fortification to certain classes of foods.
Seems like that would be a case for ignoring fortified nutrients in rating foods, not for banning the process entirely.