Free checklist
Use this checklist to sanity-check a cannabis pouch before it goes for review. It is a plain-language summary of public Health Canada packaging and labelling guidance, grouped the way an artwork reviewer reads a pouch. It is not legal advice, and it is not exhaustive — always verify against the official guide and your own regulatory reviewer.
Requirements change and depend on your product class, format, and province. This page paraphrases public Health Canada guidance to help you catch obvious gaps early; it does not replace the official packaging and labelling guide, the Cannabis Act and Regulations, provincial rules, or your compliance reviewer's sign-off.
Six groups an artwork reviewer works through on a pouch. Each notes how Prooflet helps.
Prooflet locks the symbol and renders the real bilingual warning copy as regulated components.
Prooflet checks that the required data fields are present before export.
Prooflet constrains brand-element area and flags marks that exceed the limits.
Subjective items (youth appeal, lifestyle impression) are surfaced for human review, never auto-passed.
Format and child-resistance requirements are a physical-packaging decision — verify with your converter.
Prooflet renders the bilingual warning and flags required text for bilingual review.
This checklist points to public Health Canada guidance. Read the primary sources before you sign anything off.
Plain packaging, required label information, the standardized cannabis symbol, and licence-holder responsibility.
The current English cannabis health warning message set.
The current French cannabis health warning message set for bilingual layouts.
Prooflet turns this checklist into 70+ conservative checks against a versioned rulepack, with the evidence attached.