Ministry of Health to repeal 16 Food-Related Marketing Authorizations

The Canadian Minister of Health is going to repeal the following 16 food-related marketing authorizations issued under the Food and Drugs Act:

1. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Anticaking Agents (SOR/2012-202)
2. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Bleaching, Maturing or Dough Conditioning Agents (SOR/2012-203)
3. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Colouring Agents (SOR/2012-204)
4. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Emulsifying, Gelling, Stabilizing or Thickening Agents (SOR/2012-205)
5. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Food Enzymes (SOR/2012-206)
6. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Firming Agents (SOR/2012-207)
7. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Glazing or Polishing Agents (SOR/2012-208)
8. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives with Other Accepted Uses (SOR/2012-209)
9. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Sweeteners (SOR/2012-210)
10. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as pH Adjusting Agents, Acid-Reacting Materials or Water Correcting Agents (SOR/2012-211)
11. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Preservatives (SOR/2012-212)
12. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Sequestering Agents (SOR/2012-213)
13. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Starch-Modifying Agents (SOR/2012-214)
14. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Yeast Foods (SOR/2012-215)
15. Marketing Authorization for Food Additives That May Be Used as Carrier or Extraction Solvents (SOR/2012-216)
16. Marketing Authorization for Vitamin D in Milk, Goat's Milk and Margarine (SOR SOR/2021-278).

The measure is part of the Health Canada's project to amend the FDR to update, consolidate and streamline food additive-related provisions. As the 15 Lists of permitted food additives will be incorporated by reference directly into the FDR, the 15 food additive-related marketing authorizations will be repealed as they would no longer be needed. 

As regards Marketing Authorization for Vitamin D in Milk, Goat's Milk and Margarine, it was published as an interim measure to permit food manufacturers to increase the amount of vitamin D in cow's milk, goat's milk and margarine until the necessary amendments were made to the relevant provisions of the FDR. Since those amendments were made on June 28, 2022, the marketing authorization is no longer needed and will be repealed.

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