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G/SPS/N/CAN/374/Add.1 
16 April 2012  
 (12-1984) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English/ 
  French 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Addendum 
 
 
The following communication, received on 5 April 2 012, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of Canada. 
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Regulations Amending the Food and Drug Regulations (1557 - Food Additives) 
 Health Canada has received submi ssions from industry requesting that the Food and Drug 
Regulations  be amended to enable the use of the following food additives.  
 As a means to improve the responsiveness of the regulatory system, Interim Marketing 
Authorizations (IMAs) were issued to permit the immediate use of these food additives, while the 
regulatory process was undertaken to formally ame nd the Regulations.  They were published in the 
"Government Notices" section of the Canada Gazette , Part I, as follows: 
- 3 February 2001, for citric acid as a pH adjusting agent in canned peaches;  
- 18 August 2001, for ascorbic acid as a pr eservative in canned mandarin oranges;  
- 10 August 2002, for calcium chloride as a firming agent in canned apricots;   - 13 September 2003, for citric acid as a pH ad justing agent in various standardized canned 
vegetable products (notified as G/SPS/N/CAN/187);  
- 11 March 2006, for citric acid as a pH adjus ting agent in standardized canned apples and 
various standardized canned vegetable products (notified as G/SPS/N/CAN/258);   
- 23 December 2006, for calcium disodium EDTA and disodium EDTA as sequestering 
agents in various standardized canned le gumes, with the exception of canned green 
beans, canned wax beans and canned peas (notified as G/SPS/N/CAN/280);  
-  13 December 2008, for citric acid as a pH  adjusting agent in the production of pickled 
beets (notified as G/SPS/N/CAN/374);  and 
- 30 July 2011, for citric acid as a pH adjus ting agent in the production of canned cut baby 
 corn (notified as G/SPS/N/CAN/555).  
 Members were informed that a revision to the notifications would be published at the start of 
the amendment process at which time a comment period would be provided. (In the case of the 
February 2001, August 2001 and August 2002 Govern ment Notices, these IMAs were issued prior to 
the date Canada began to notify its IMAs.  At the time that these IMAs were issued, it was anticipated 
that the WTO notification would occur later when  the appropriate regulatory amendments were 
published in the Canada Gazette , Part I.) G/SPS/N/CAN/374/Add.1 
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 However, in July 2006, the Canadian regul atory process was modified to permit regulatory 
amendments having low significance when assessed against a triage frame work to proceed directly to 
final approval and publication in Canada Gazette , Part II. 
 The IMAs noted above are enabling measures as they allow the sale of additional foods 
containing the food additive, or the sale of food containing the food additive at higher levels than 
previously permitted.  No concerns or issues have been identified by Canada's trading partners since 
the IMAs were issued.  
 The evaluation of the available data supports  the safety and efficacy of these food additives in 
the above specified uses. Therefore, the Food and Drug Regulations  have been amended to permit the 
use of the food additives mentioned ab ove in the specified applications. 
 These Regulations entered in to force on 15 March 2012. 
This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation 
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation 
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force 
[ ] Other:    
Comment period:  (If the addendum extends the scope of th e previously notified measure in terms 
of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of comments should be 
provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days.  Under other circumstances, such as extension of 
originally announced final date for comments, th e comment period provided in the addendum may 
vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax num ber and e-mail address (if available) of other 
body: 
Text available from:  [ ] National Notification Au thority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, 
fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: 
The full text of the adopted measure can be downl oaded from the Internet addresses indicated below: 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/201 2/2012-03-28/html/sor-dors43-eng.html  (English) 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/201 2/2012-03-28/html/sor-dors43-fra.html  (French) 
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/ p2/2012/2012-03-28/p df/g2-14607.pdf  (SOR/2012-43)   
or requested from: 
Canadian Enquiry Point 
Standards Council of Canada 
200-270 Albert Street 
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6N7 Tel:  +(613) 238-3222 Fax:  +(613) 569-7808 E-mail:  enquirypoint@scc.ca  
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