Canada: L-Lysine hydrochloride in snack foods
As of November 6, 2019 Health Canada has approved the use of L-lysine hydrochloride in certain types of snack food (those made from dough...
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Lisa Logan
- May 15, 2019
- 1 min
Canada: approval of sweetener Steviol glycosides from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Health Canada has recently evaluated and approved the use of Steviol glycosides from Saccharomyces cerevisiae CD15380 and CD15407 in a...
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Lisa Logan
- Apr 3, 2019
- 1 min
Canada: steviol glycosides in canned fruit
Effective April 3rd, Health Canada is allowing the use of steviol glycosides from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni in canned fruits products....
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Lisa Logan
- Mar 20, 2019
- 1 min
Canada: ground limestone colour now permitted in unstandardised confectionery
Effective March 20th 2019, Health Canada has approved the use of ground limestone as a colouring in unstandardisd confectionery in...
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Lisa Logan
- Jul 9, 2018
- 1 min
Canada: gellan gum
Health Canada has amended its food additive lists to provide for the use of gellan gum in certain standardised flavoured milks. Further...
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Lisa Logan
- May 14, 2018
- 1 min
Canada: tara gum approval
Effective May 14, 2018 Health Canada is now permitting the use of tara gum, a new emulsifying, gelling, stabilising and thickening agent,...
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Lisa Logan
- May 8, 2018
- 1 min
Canada: tamarind gum
Effective May 8, 2018 Health Canada has approved the use of tamarind gum and has included it in its list of permitted Emulsifying,...
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Lisa Logan
- Apr 4, 2018
- 1 min
Canada: Propionic acid & sodium propionate extensions
Effective April 4, 2018 Health Canada is permittting the use of propionic acid and sodium propionate (preservatives) in ready-to-eat...
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Lisa Logan
- Mar 13, 2018
- 1 min
Canada: erythritol extension of uses
Effective today, Health Canada has extended the uses of erythritol to allow for its use in so-called "food thickener products" to max. 2%...
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Lisa Logan
- Feb 9, 2018
- 1 min
Canada: extended uses for nisin
Health Canada has approved the use of nisin (preservative) in several new applications effective February 9, 2018. Details of the...
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foodlaw
- Aug 30, 2017
- 1 min
Canada: modification to steviol glycosides specification
Health Canada received a food additive submission seeking approval for the expansion of the steviol glycoside definition of this...
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Lisa Logan
- Apr 28, 2017
- 1 min
Canada: additional uses for sweetener erythritol
Health Canada had finished its assessment of a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of erythritol as a sweetener in meal...
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Lisa Logan
- Apr 19, 2017
- 1 min
Canada: approval of new sweetener Advantame
Effective April 19 2017, Health Canada now permits the use of Advantame in several food and beverage applications. It has been added to...
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Lisa Logan
- Mar 24, 2017
- 1 min
Canada: proposed new food colour - lycopene
Health Canada recently published a proposal to provide for the use of lycopene extract from tomato in a host of food categories. The...
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Lisa Logan
- Oct 21, 2016
- 1 min
Canada: preservatives in meat and poultry
Health Canada has modified the list of permitted preservatives to allow for the use of potassium acetate and potassium diacetate in...
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Lisa Logan
- Aug 23, 2016
- 1 min
Canada: Steviol glycosides, new approvals
Health Canada is now allowing steviol glycosides to be used as a sweetener in nutritional supplement bars. This approval became effective...
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Lisa Logan
- Jul 3, 2016
- 1 min
Canada: Two additives removed by Health Canada
Effective 29 June 2016 Health Canada has removed the entries for 2-nitropropane (under extraction / carrier solvents) and epichlorohydrin...
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Lisa Logan
- Jun 7, 2016
- 1 min
Canada: preservatives in meat and poultry
Health Canada proposes to allow potassium acetate and potassium diacetate as preservatives in meat and poultry products. See link here:...
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