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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Final Rules: Food Additives and Color Additives
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Petition(s): FAP 4B4416

Indirect Food Additives: Adhesives and Components of Coatings

Petitioner: Shell Oil Co.
Docket number (legacy and/or former docket number(s)): (94F-0090)
Subject additive and intended use: amending the food additive regulations to provide broadened specifications for congealing point and oil content for synthetic paraffinic waxes produced by the Fischer-Tropsch process so that the specifications for synthetic paraffin waxes more closely resemble specifications for other synthetic waxes permitted for use in food packaging under other regulations
21 CFR* affected: 175.250 Paraffin (synthetic)
Substance(s)*, (CAS Registry® No.): petroleum wax, synthetic
Federal Register publication history: Apr 18, 1994 59 FR 18412 Notice
Aug 3, 1995 60 FR 39645 Final Rule Aug 3, 1995

 

*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)
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