Health Canada authorizes grape seed extract as new supplemental ingredient
Canada
Jan 24, 2025
Health Canada's Food and Nutrition Directorate completed a safety assessment of grape seed extract. The assessment concluded that information related to chemistry, nutrition, toxicology, and allergenicity supports the safety of grape seed extract for use as a supplemental ingredient in supplemented foods.
The grape seed extract that Health Canada has permitted, as a result of the aforementioned safety assessment, is derived from the seeds of grapes, Vitis vinifera L. (family: Vitaceae), and is standardized according to the content of oligomeric proanthocyanidins. The available toxicological and clinical evidence supports the safe consumption of grape seed extract as a supplemental ingredient by the general population of healthy adults, up to the equivalent of 100 mg oligomeric proanthocyanidins on a daily basis.
Health Canada has concluded that grape seed extract (oligomeric proanthocyanidins), when used as a supplemental ingredient in accordance with the conditions of use outlined in Part IV of the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients (and as listed in the table below), does not pose any toxicological, nutritional or allergenic concerns.
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