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CanadaProposed measure, open for comments

Food additives – Canada

Official title

Modification to the List of Permitted Anticaking Agents (silicon dioxide)

Canada notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 5 November 2026. Comments are open until 12 January 2027.

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At a glance

Products

Silicon dioxide

Notifying member
Canada
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
Objectives
  • Food safety
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/CAN/1655
ICS classification
  • 67.220.20 Food additives
Keywords
Food safety, Human health

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 12 January 2027
Proposed adoption
The proposed food additive modification will be legally enabled once published in Health Canada's Lists of Permitted Food Additives: (
Proposed entry into force
The food additive modification noted in this document comes into force the day it is made to the Lists of Permitted Food Additives: (

How to comment

Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO SPS enquiry point before 12 January 2027, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/CAN/1655 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Canada.

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What the notification says

Health Canada's Food Directorate completed a premarket assessment of a food additive submission seeking authorization for the use of silicon dioxide as an anticaking agent in nutrient pre-mixes for use in infant formula. The outcome of the premarket assessment supports authorizing silicon dioxide for use as an anticaking agent in nutrient pre-mixes for use in infant formula at a maximum level of use of Good Manufacturing Practice, with the silicon dioxide residue in the formula as consumed not to exceed 10 ppm. Consequently, Health Canada has extended the use of silicon dioxide as described in the Notice by modifying the List of Permitted Anticaking Agents, effective 29 October 2026. The purpose of the information document 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 relevant to the safety of this food additive.

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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