Chemical Substance - Flavour
NHPID name:
Flavour
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Substances or mixtures of substances used as non-medicinal ingredients (NMIs) for the purpose of flavour enhancer, either artificial or natural, may be selected – in the Natural Health Product Licence Application Form (web PLA form) – as flavour, named flavour(s), or more specifically, as the corresponding chemical substance(s) and/or defined organism substance(s). A single application may be submitted for the licensing of products that come in multiple possible flavours – all to be listed as NMIs, provided that all other aspects of the product remain the same; and, while the purpose of these NMIs may be qualified as artificial or natural in the web PLA form, such qualifiers are not required to be labelled.
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Non-medicinal
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The information supporting the safety, nature, and suitability of these substances or mixtures of substances as NMIs – typically food safe – may be requested and should therefore remain available upon request. Examples include, but are not limited to, (1) flavouring preparations as set out in Volume 9 of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's Food Compositional Standards Document; (2) substances concluded, notified, and/or codified as generally recognized as safe (GRAS) as set out in the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA)'s GRAS Substances Database, the US FDA's GRAS Notice Inventory, and/or Title 21, Part 182 of the United States National Archives and Records Administration's Code of Federal Regulations; and/or (3) the European Commission's Food Flavourings Database.
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