Petition(s): FAP 8B4561

Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers

• Petitioner: The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
• Docket number (legacy and/or former docket number(s)): (97F-0504)
• Subject additive and intended use: amending the food additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of the butylated reaction product of p-cresol and dicyclopentadiene for use as an antioxidant in acrylonitrile/butadiene/ styrene copolymers in contact with food
• 21 CFR* affected: 178.2010 Antioxidants and/or stabilizers for polymers
• Substance(s)*, (CAS Registry® No.): dicyclopentadiene-isobutylene-4-methylphenol reaction product, (68610-51-5)
• Federal Register publication history: Dec 10, 1997 62 FR 65084 Notice ; Jan 4, 1999 64 FR 34 Final Rule Jan 4, 1999

 

*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)