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Catalogue Entry: List of Permitted Anticaking Agents (Lists of Permitted Food Additives)
This List of Permitted Anticaking Agents sets out authorized food additives that reduce adhesion of particles to maintain the texture of food. It is incorporated by reference in...-
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Catalogue Entry: Lists of Permitted Food Additives
The Lists of permitted food additives are Health Canada's official repository of substances that are permitted for use as additives in or on foods marketed in Canada.-
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Catalogue Entry: Tricks to not get sick: Food safety for kids (described video)
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Catalogue Entry: Tricks to not get sick: Food safety for kids (video)
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Catalogue Entry: List of Permitted Carrier or Extraction Solvents (Lists of Permitted Food Additives)
This List of Permitted Carrier or Extraction Solvents sets out authorized food additives used to dissolve, dilute, extract, disperse, deliver or otherwise physically modify a...-
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Catalogue Entry: List of Permitted Yeast Foods (Lists of Permitted Food Additives)
This List of Permitted Yeast Foods sets out authorized food additives that are used as nutrients to grow yeast.-
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Catalogue Entry: List of Permitted Sequestering Agents (Lists of Permitted Food Additives)
This List of Permitted Sequestering Agents sets out authorized food additives that are used to control the availability of cations.-
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Catalogue Entry: List of Permitted Preservatives (Lists of Permitted Food Additives)
This List of Permitted Preservatives sets out authorized food additives used to control micro-organisms or oxidation in food.-
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Catalogue Entry: List of Permitted pH Adjusting Agents, Acid-Reacting Materials and Water...
This List of Permitted pH Adjusting Agents, Acid-Reacting Materials and Water Correcting Agents sets out authorized food additives that are used to alter or control the acidity...-
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Catalogue Entry: Transition Guide: Understanding and Using the Lists of Permitted Food Additives
The way in which Health Canada formally approves food additives once a scientific assessment has determined that a food is safe is changing. On April 26, 2012, as part of Bill...-
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Catalogue Entry: What we heard: Consultations on the policy on Listeria monocytogenes in...
Health Canada's Listeria policy is an important tool used to help prevent the introduction of the illness-causing bacteria, L. monocytogenes, into ready-to-eat foods that are...-
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Catalogue Entry: Food Processing Aids
This section provides information on processing aids and their use in Canada.-
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Catalogue Entry: Tree Nuts - Priority food allergens
In Canada, the priority food allergens are peanuts, tree nuts (almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachio nuts and walnuts), sesame...-
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Catalogue Entry: The Use Of Food Allergen Precautionary Statements On Prepackaged Foods
Health Canada's policy for enhancing the protection of food-allergic consumers in Canada is based on two guiding principles: prevent the inadvertent consumption of undeclared...-
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Catalogue Entry: Food Additives e-Notice
Join Health Canada's Food Additives e-Notice, a free service to stay on top of issued advice as well as regulatory and scientific developments in the area of food additives in...-
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Catalogue Entry: Allergen Detection Methods - The Compendium of Food Allergen Methodologies
With the emergence of several allergen detection methodologies, there was a need to adopt a consistent approach to evaluate/validate these methods, if they are to be used in...-
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Catalogue Entry: Wheat & Triticale - Priority food allergens
In Canada, the priority food allergens are peanuts, tree nuts (almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachio nuts and walnuts), sesame...-
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Catalogue Entry: Whole Algal Flour to be used as a partial replacement for cream, milk,...
In 2014, Health Canada received a submission to allow the sale of Whole Algal Flour to be used as a partial replacement for cream, milk, eggs/egg yolks and butter/shortening in...-
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Catalogue Entry: Acrylamide in food
Acrylamide is a chemical that can form from naturally present compounds in starchy foods during high-temperature processing or cooking (for example, baking, frying, roasting)....-
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Catalogue Entry: Cannabis Market Data
Health Canada collects data on cannabis under the Cannabis Tracking System Ministerial Order. Data collected is for these types of cannabis in the legal industry: dried...