"Renaming" Without Altering Nature: Health Canada Announces a "Clean-Up" of the Lists of Permitted Food Additives
On September 15, 2025, Health Canada released document M-FAA-25-06, announcing a "clean-up" of Canada's Lists of Permitted Food Additives: removing duplicates, standardizing names, but with "zero additions, zero deletions, and zero restrictions." These changes will not alter the approved uses of food additives, nor will they affect the labeling of prepackaged foods. Foodmate brings you a quick overview of the key revisions.