date:Nov 13, 2012
Health Canada, the department responsible for safeguarding public health in Canada, has introduced new regulations, updating its 50-year-old rules in order to accelerate the authorisation of food additives and boost safety.
Under the previous regulations, even if scientists demonstrated that a food additive could lower the risk of a serious food-borne illness outbreak, it took about 12 to 18 months to update the department's approved food additive list and make the product legal.
While the new