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Filing of Food Additive Petition From Environmental Defense Fund, et al.; Request To Amend the Food Additive Regulations To Remove the Solvents Benzene, Ethylene Dichloride, Methylene Chloride, and Trichloroethylene
The Food and Drug Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on January 11, 2024. It took effect on December 21, 2023. Comments closed on March 11, 2024.
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What the agency says
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing that we have filed a food additive petition, submitted by Environmental Defense Fund, et al., proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to remove four specified solvents.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-00411
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notification of petition
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Food and Drug Administration
- Published
- January 11, 2024
- Takes effect
- December 21, 2023
- Comments due
- March 11, 2024
- Dates
- The food additive petition was filed on December 21, 2023. Submit either electronic or written comments on the filing notice by March 11, 2024.
- Docket
- Docket No. FDA-2023-F-5684
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 21 CFR 172; 21 CFR 173
- Pages
- 2
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