Canada and South Korea
Food additives permitted in one and not the other — and what each gap actually means.
232 additives are permitted in both. 158 are permitted in Canada with no permission in South Korea, none of them explicitly prohibited there. 230 are permitted in South Korea with no permission in Canada, none of them explicitly prohibited there.
A missing permission is rarely a ban. Usually no one has applied, the substance is named or grouped differently, or it falls under a different law. Only the first two groups below — prohibited, and removed — record a regulator’s decision against a substance, and even those are decisions about legal status, not findings this site draws about safety.
Permitted in Canada, no permission in South Korea
No South Korean listing matched 158
This site imports Part III of South Korea’s Standards and Specifications for Food Additives, and matches it by CAS number, then INS number, then exact name. A substance the notification lists under an identifier or name this site has not matched, or one held for review because its identifiers disagreed with a page’s, will appear here. Treat these as unconfirmed, not as absent.
Permitted in South Korea, no permission in Canada
No Canadian listing matched 230
Health Canada’s lists name additives without E or INS numbers, so this site matches them by exact name. A substance listed in Canada under a name this site does not recognise will appear here. Treat these as unconfirmed, not as absent.
What this page is not
It is not a list of unsafe additives, and a regulator permitting something is not this site’s endorsement of it. Regulators reach different decisions on the same evidence, on different applications, and at different times. Each additive’s page shows every jurisdiction’s status with its citation, and where an assessing body has published a reading of the evidence, that reading, attributed.
Counts are of this site’s additive pages, which follow the regulators’ own listings: a group entry in one jurisdiction can correspond to several pages in another. Status as retrieved from each source; see Sources for dates.