Petition(s): FAP 6B4814

Indirect Food Additives: Paper and Paperboard Components

• Petitioner: 3M Corporation
• Docket number (legacy and/or former docket number(s)): FDA-2016-F-1153
• Subject additive and intended use: amending the food additive regulations to no longer provide for the use of two specific perfluoroalkyl containing substances as oil and water repellents for paper and paperboard for use in contact with aqueous and fatty foods because these uses have been abandoned.
• 21 CFR* affected: 176.170 Components of paper and paperboard in contact with aqueous and fatty foods.
• Substance(s)*, (CAS Registry® No.): Ammonium bis (N-ethyl-2-perfluoroalkylsulfonamido ethyl) phosphates, containing not more than 15 percent ammonium mono (N-ethyl-2-perfluoroalkylsulfonamido ethyl) phosphates, where the alkyl group is more than 95 percent C8 and the salts have a fluorine content of 50.2 percent to 52.8 percent as determined on a solids basis ; perfluoroalkyl acrylate copolymer, (92265-81-1)
• Federal Register publication history: Apr 29, 2016 81 FR 25625 Notice of petition ; Nov 22, 2016 81 FR 83672 Final Rule Nov 22, 2016

 

*Definitions

• 21 CFR: Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
• Substance: The name of the substance listed in the CFR.
• CAS Registry® No.: Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) Registry Number® for the substance.
• Petitions (see also Questions and Answers About the Petition Process)
  • FAP: Food Additive Petition
  • CAP: Color Additive Petition
  • GRP: GRAS Affirmation Petition (replaced by GRAS Notification Program in 1998)