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...

Health Canada has recently evaluated and approved the use of Steviol glycosides from Saccharomyces cerevisiae CD15380 and CD15407 in a...

Effective April 3rd, Health Canada is allowing the use of steviol glycosides from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni in canned fruits products....

Effective March 20th 2019, Health Canada has approved the use of ground limestone as a colouring in unstandardisd confectionery in...

Health Canada has amended its food additive lists to provide for the use of gellan gum in certain standardised flavoured milks. Further...

Effective May 14, 2018 Health Canada is now permitting the use of tara gum, a new emulsifying, gelling, stabilising and thickening agent,...

Effective May 8, 2018 Health Canada has approved the use of tamarind gum and has included it in its list of permitted Emulsifying,...

Effective April 4, 2018 Health Canada is permittting the use of propionic acid and sodium propionate (preservatives) in ready-to-eat...

Effective today, Health Canada has extended the uses of erythritol to allow for its use in so-called "food thickener products" to max. 2%...

Health Canada has approved the use of nisin (preservative) in several new applications effective February 9, 2018. Details of the...

Health Canada received a food additive submission seeking approval for the expansion of the steviol glycoside definition of this...

Health Canada had finished its assessment of a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of erythritol as a sweetener in meal...

Effective April 19 2017, Health Canada now permits the use of Advantame in several food and beverage applications. It has been added to...

Health Canada recently published a proposal to provide for the use of lycopene extract from tomato in a host of food categories. The...

Health Canada has modified the list of permitted preservatives to allow for the use of potassium acetate and potassium diacetate in...

Health Canada is now allowing steviol glycosides to be used as a sweetener in nutritional supplement bars. This approval became effective...

Effective 29 June 2016 Health Canada has removed the entries for 2-nitropropane (under extraction / carrier solvents) and epichlorohydrin...

Health Canada proposes to allow potassium acetate and potassium diacetate as preservatives in meat and poultry products. See link here:...