Notice of Modification to the List of Permitted Sweeteners to Enable the Use of Sucralose as a Sweetener in  
Nutritional Supplement Dry Soup Mixes   
Bureau of Chemical Safety, Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch     1 
  
Notice of Modification to the List of Permitted Sweeteners 
to Enable the Use of Sucralose as a Sweetener in 
Nutritional Supplement Dry Soup Mixes  
Notice of Modification – Lists of Permitted Food Additives   
Reference Number: [NOM/ADM -0082] 
 
 
 November 25, 2016   
Notice of Modification to the List of Permitted Sweeteners to Enable the Use of Sucralose as a Sweetener in  
Nutritional Supplement Dry Soup Mixes   
Bureau of Chemical Safety, Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch     2 Summary  
 
Food additives are regulated in Canada under Marketing Authorizations  (MAs) issued by the 
Minister of Health and the Food and Drug Regulations.  Approved food additives and their 
permitted conditions of use are set out in the Lists of Permitted Food Ad ditives  that are 
incorporated by reference in the MAs and published on Health Canada’s website. A petitioner 
can request that Health Canada approve a new additive or a new condition of use for an already 
approved food additive by filing a food additive sub mission with the Department's Food 
Directorate. Health Canada uses this premarket approval process to determine whether the 
scientific data support the safety of food additives when used under specified conditions in foods 
sold in Canada.  
 
Health Canada received a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of sucralose as a 
sweetener in nutritional supplement dry soup mixes at a maximum level of 0.03% on the basis of 
the soup as consumed.  
 
Sucralose is already permitted for use in Canada as a s weetener in a wide variety of foods at 
various maximum levels of use. The results of Health Canada’s evaluation of available scientific 
data support extending the permitted uses of sucralose to include nutritional supplement dry soup 
mixes as set out in th e table below. Therefore, Health Canada has modified the List of Permitted 
Sweeteners  by adding the entry shown below to the list.  
 
Modification to the List of Permitted Sweeteners  
 
Item 
No. Column 1 -  
Additive  
 Column 2 - Permitted in or 
Upon  
 Column 3 - Maximum Level of 
Use and Other Conditions  
S.2 Sucralose  (18) Nutritional supplement dry 
soup mixes  
 (18) 0.03% in soups as consumed  
 
Rationale  
 
Health Canada’s Food Directorate completed a pre -market safety assessment of the requested use 
of the sweetener sucralose. The assessment considered the nutrition, toxicology, and chemistry 
aspects of the requested use of sucralose and found it to be acceptable. The Department has 
therefore enabled the use of sucralose  by modifying the List of Permitted Sweeteners  as 
described in the above table.  
 
Other Relevant Information  
 
The Food and Drug Regulations require that food additives such as sucralose, which do not have 
specifications set out in the Regulations, meet the food -grade specifications set out in the most  
Notice of Modification to the List of Permitted Sweeteners to Enable the Use of Sucralose as a Sweetener in  
Nutritional Supplement Dry Soup Mixes   
Bureau of Chemical Safety, Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch     3 recent edition of the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC). The FCC is a compendium of standards for 
purity and identity for food ingredients, including food additives, which is published by the 
United States Pharmacopeial Convention.  
 
Corrective modifications to the English and French List of Permitted 
Sweeteners  
 
For consistency within the Lists of Permit ted Food Additives, the word “flavoured” has been 
added after the word “chocolate” in the term “unstandardized chocolate confectionery coatings” 
in Column 2 of subitems S.1.2 (2) and (7) in the List of Permitted Sweeteners . The corresponding 
translation wa s made to the French Liste des édulcorants autorisés . Also for consistency within 
the Lists, the term “Suppléments nutritifs en barre” is replaced by “Suppléments nutritifs sous 
forme de barre” in Column 2 of subitem S.2 (17) of the Liste des édulcorants autorisés . 
 
Implementation and Enforcement  
 
The above modifications came into force on November 25, 2016 , the day they were published in 
the List of Permitted Sweeteners . 
 
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is responsible for the enforcement of the Food and Drugs 
Act and its associated regulations with respect to foods.  
 
Contact Information  
 
Health Canada's Food Directorate is committed to reviewing any new scientific information on 
the safety of any permitted food additive, including sucralose . Anyone wishing to submit new 
scientific information on the use of this additive or to submit any in quiries may do so in writing, 
by regular mail or electronically. If you wish to contact the Food Directorate elec tronically, 
please use the word  “sucralose ” in the subject line of your e -mail.  
 
Bureau of Chemical Safety, Food Directorate  
251 Sir Frederick Banting Driveway  
Tunney’s Pasture, PL: 2202C  
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L2  
E-mail: bcs-bipc@hc -sc.gc.ca