Petition(s): FAP 9B4634

Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers

• Petitioner: Solvay S.A.
• Docket number (legacy and/or former docket number(s)): (98F-1034)
• Subject additive and intended use: amending the food additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of naphthalene sulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate, sodium salt as an emulsifier in vinylidene chloride copolymer or homopolymer coatings applied to polypropylene films and polyethylene phthalate films intended for use in contact with food
• 21 CFR* affected: 178.3400 Emulsifiers and/or surface active agents
• Substance(s)*, (CAS Registry® No.): naphthalene sulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate, sodium salt, (9084-06-4)
• Federal Register publication history: Dec 2, 1998 63 FR 66549 Notice ; Jan 7, 1999 64 FR 1023 Notice; correction Jan 7, 1999 ; Aug 23, 1999 64 FR 45873 Final Rule Aug 23, 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)