Food and Drug Regulations

B.18.016 [S]. Glucose or Glucose Syrup

• (a) shall be the purified concentrated solution of nutritive saccharides obtained from the incomplete hydrolysis, by means of acid or enzymes, of starch or of a starch-containing substance;

• (b) shall have a total solids content of not less than 70 per cent;

• (c) shall have a sulphated ash content of not more than 1.0 per cent on a dry basis;

• (d) shall have a reducing sugar content (dextrose equivalent) of not less than 20 per cent expressed as D-glucose on a dry basis; and

• (e) may contain sulphurous acid or its salts.