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Reference Number: NOM/ADM-0141 [2019-11-21] Background Health Canada's Food Directorate completed a premarket safety assessment of a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of Xylanase from Trichoderma reesei (LOVxlnA#568.4) in Bread, Flour, Whole Wheat Flour and Unstandardized Bakery Products. The...

Reference Number: NOP/ADP-0033 November 15, 2019 Background Health Canada's Food Directorate is proposing modifications to the parabens' food uses with the objective of ensuring that these uses are up to date and reflective of actual uses in foods sold in Canada. Consequently,...

Reference Number: NOM/ADM-0140 Background Health Canada's Food Directorate completed a premarket safety assessment of a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of l-lysine monohydrochloride in certain processed snack foods to inhibit acrylamide formation during their manufacture. The results of...

Reference Number: NOM/ADM-0139 [2019-09-04] Background Health Canada's Food Directorate completed a premarket safety assessment of a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of glutaminase from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens GT2 in various unstandardized foods.  A Notice of Health Canada's Proposal to...

Background Health Canada's Food Directorate completed a premarket safety assessment of a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of polysorbate 80 in the manufacture of spray-dried bacterial culture preparations for use in infant formula powders, dried infant cereal...

Background Health Canada's Food Directorate completed a premarket safety assessment of a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of tocopherols in dehydrated fish broth and dehydrated mollusc broth. The use of tocopherols as an antioxidant is already permitted...

Reference Number: NOM/ADM-0137 [2019-08-07] Background Health Canada's Food Directorate completed a detailed safety assessment of a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of potassium phosphate, dibasic in the manufacture of infant cereal products and sodium potassium hexametaphosphate in...

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Health Canada will be modifying the regulatory List of Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances in Foods, to add a new maximum level of 20 parts per million (p.p.m.) total extractable cyanide in apricot kernels sold for human consumption, which is...