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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; Reopening of the Comment Period
The Food and Drug Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on May 28, 2026. Comments closed on June 29, 2026.
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What the agency says
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is reopening the comment period for the notification of petition, published in the Federal Register of January 11, 2024, announcing that we filed a food additive petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to remove four specified solvents. FDA is reopening the comment period to allow for the submission of any updated data and other information over the last two years.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-10615
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notification of petition; reopening of the comment period
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Food and Drug Administration
- Published
- May 28, 2026
- Comments due
- June 29, 2026
- Dates
- FDA is reopening the comment period on the notification of petition published January 11, 2024 (89 FR 1857). Either electronic or written comments must be submitted by June 29, 2026.
- Docket
- Docket No. FDA-2023-F-5684
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 21 CFR 172; 21 CFR 173
- Pages
- 2
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