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Proposal To Remove the Color Additive Listing for Use of Orange B on Casings or Surfaces of Frankfurters and Sausages
The Food and Drug Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on September 17, 2025. Comments closed on October 17, 2025.
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What the agency says
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is proposing to issue an order that would remove the color additive regulation that allows for the use of Orange B for coloring the casings or surfaces of frankfurters and sausages. Based on certification data, it appears that Orange B is no longer used for coloring the casings or surfaces of frankfurters and sausages and has not been certified for use as a color additive in food marketed in the United States since 1978. Because the authorized use of Orange B appears to have been abandoned, we have tentatively concluded that this color additive regulation is outdated and unnecessary.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-18023
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed amendment; proposed order
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Food and Drug Administration
- Published
- September 17, 2025
- Comments due
- October 17, 2025
- Dates
- Submit electronic or written comments on the proposed order by October 17, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. FDA-2025-C-3543
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 21 CFR 74
- Topics
- Color additives; Cosmetics; Drugs
- Pages
- 3
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