On 4 November 2023, Health Canada issued consultation document NOP/ADP-0041, which proposes to revise the list of permitted food additives, with a feedback period ending on 2 February 2024. The main contents are:

(1) To meet the requirements of the new regulatory framework of the Modernisation Regulation, it is proposed to set out five columns in the list, with the name of each additive, the permitted source of the additive, the name of the food, the purpose for which it may be used in that food, the maximum level of use or maximum residue permitted in each food, and other applicable conditions set out in columns 1 to 5, respectively;

(2) The names of food additives are updated to use a uniform format (capital letters and numbers), synonyms are deleted, and the same type of colouring matter will be grouped under the same item number;

(3) All additives will have a source column, with N/A being used when the permitted source is not specified;

(4) Food names will use standardised food names, replacing multiple common names with one common name. For example, the four generic names of flour, white flour, fortified flour and fortified white flour have been changed to the standardised name of "white flour"; and the terminology of food names has been standardised, e.g. poultry meat must be preceded by the word poultry;

(5) The use column indicates the permitted uses of the additive that can be used in the foods or food categories listed in column 3.