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Canada
Canada assesses a new ingredient before it can be sold, and the record of that work is public. Approval and availability are different things here, which is the mistake this page exists to avoid.
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What is decided here
In Canada, a food or ingredient that counts as novel under the Food and Drug Regulations needs a pre-market safety assessment before it can be sold. [pf-07]
Health Canada, undated page · from How is precision-fermented protein actually made, and where is it approved?
Health Canada's table of completed novel-food safety assessments carries a decision dated January 31, 2024 for β-lactoglobulin protein from the yeast strain Komagataella phaffii yRMK-66, proposed by Remilk. [pf-08]
Health Canada, undated page · from How is precision-fermented protein actually made, and where is it approved?
That same summary says the ingredient is not intended for sale direct to consumers or for use in infant formula. [pf-10]
Health Canada, undated page · from How is precision-fermented protein actually made, and where is it approved?
Kinds of food here
Precision fermentation
Foods whose useful part is a single molecule made by a micro-organism and then purified.