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Non-alcoholic beverages – Canada

Official title

Proposal to modify the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients to permit 30% juice in certain caffeinated beverages

Canada issued an addendum on 18 August 2026 to the earlier SPS notification G/SPS/N/CAN/1599. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 28 July 2025. The comment period closed on 8 October 2025.

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At a glance

Products

Caffeinated beverages

Notifying member
Canada
Status
Updated: check whether it is now adopted or in force
Objectives
  • Food safety
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/CAN/1599Latest notice: G/SPS/N/CAN/1599/Add.1
ICS classification
  • 67.160.20 Non-alcoholic beverages
Keywords
Food safety, Human health, Adoption/publication/entry into force of reg.

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 8 October 2025
Proposed adoption
The proposed modifications will be legally enabled once published in the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients.
Proposed entry into force
Modifications to the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients come into force the day they are made to the list.

How to comment

The comment period closed on 8 October 2025. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/CAN/1599/Add.1; it can take them up with Canada.

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What the notification says

Latest notice (⁨G/SPS/N/CAN/1599/Add.1⁩, 18 August 2026)

Modification to the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients (caffeine and L-asparagine)

Health Canada received a pre-market submission to modify the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients to permit no more than 30% juice in certain foods belonging to the category listed in Item 1 of the List of Permitted Supplemented Food Categories, specifically those permitted to contain added caffeine as a supplemental ingredient and a total caffeine content from all sources exceeding 150 p.p.m. (C.1(2) of Part IV). Following its pre-market assessment, Health Canada has authorized a total juice content of no more than 30% for entry C.1(2) as requested and has extended this modification to C.1(1) for alignment across similar entries. Health Canada also corrected the unit of measurement for L-asparagine in the French version of the list. The modifications described in the notice come into force 13 August 2026, the day of their publication in the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients. The purpose of this communication is to publicly announce the Department's decision in this regard and to provide the appropriate contact information for those wishing to submit an inquiry or new scientific information about a permitted supplemented food category or a supplemental ingredient authorized for use in Canada.

Health Canada's Food and Nutrition Directorate received a pre-market submission to modify the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients to permit no more than 30% juice in foods belonging to the category listed in item 1 of the List of Permitted Supplemented Food Categories, permitted to contain added caffeine as a supplemental ingredient and a total caffeine content from all sources of more than 150 p.p.m. The Food and Nutrition Directorate also identified that specific terminology used in column 5 of caffeine entry (1) (Part IV: Other Supplemental Ingredients, C.1) in the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients does not align with the phrasing in column 5 for caffeine entry (2). Additionally, in the French version of the List, the wording for the corresponding entry for caffeine (2) is not an accurate translation of the English version. As a result, minor inconsistencies in the indicated caffeine entries are present in the English and French versions of the List. The purpose of the notice is to publicly announce Health Canada's intentions in this regard and provide the appropriate contact information for those wishing to submit comments on the proposal.

Notices on this measure

Every notice about this measure published here, newest first. Each one is the notifying member's own text.

  1. AddendumG/SPS/N/CAN/1599/Add.1

    Modification to the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients (caffeine and L-asparagine)

    Health Canada received a pre-market submission to modify the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients to permit no more than 30% juice in certain foods belonging to the category listed in Item 1 of the List of Permitted Supplemented Food Categories, specifically those permitted to contain added caffeine as a supplemental ingredient and a total caffeine content from all sources exceeding 150 p.p.m. (C.1(2) of Part IV). Following its pre-market assessment, Health Canada has authorized a total juice content of no more than 30% for entry C.1(2) as requested and has extended this modification to C.1(1) for alignment across similar entries. Health Canada also corrected the unit of measurement for L-asparagine in the French version of the list. The modifications described in the notice come into force 13 August 2026, the day of their publication in the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients. The purpose of this communication is to publicly announce the Department's decision in this regard and to provide the appropriate contact information for those wishing to submit an inquiry or new scientific information about a permitted supplemented food category or a supplemental ingredient authorized for use in Canada.

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)

  2. Regular notificationG/SPS/N/CAN/1599

    Comment deadline: Closed on 8 October 2025

    Proposal to modify the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients to permit 30% juice in certain caffeinated beverages

    Health Canada's Food and Nutrition Directorate received a pre-market submission to modify the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients to permit no more than 30% juice in foods belonging to the category listed in item 1 of the List of Permitted Supplemented Food Categories, permitted to contain added caffeine as a supplemental ingredient and a total caffeine content from all sources of more than 150 p.p.m. The Food and Nutrition Directorate also identified that specific terminology used in column 5 of caffeine entry (1) (Part IV: Other Supplemental Ingredients, C.1) in the List of Permitted Supplemental Ingredients does not align with the phrasing in column 5 for caffeine entry (2). Additionally, in the French version of the List, the wording for the corresponding entry for caffeine (2) is not an accurate translation of the English version. As a result, minor inconsistencies in the indicated caffeine entries are present in the English and French versions of the List. The purpose of the notice is to publicly announce Health Canada's intentions in this regard and provide the appropriate contact information for those wishing to submit comments on the proposal.

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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