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Health Canada published an amendment to its List of Permitted Food Additives with Other Accepted Uses

Canada

Dec 05, 2019

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 the premarket assessment support the safety and efficacy of l-lysine monohydrochloride for its requested use.

Health Canada's Proposal to Enable the Use of l-Lysine Monohydrochloride in Certain Processed Snack Foods [Reference Number: NOP/ADP-0032] was published on May 13, 2019. The proposal was open to the public for comment for 75 days.

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List of Permitted Food Additives with Other Accepted Uses (in English), click on the Link

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