Final Rules: Food Additives and Color Additives
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Petition(s): CAP 4C0328
Listing of Color Additives Exempt from Certification: Butterfly Pea Flower Extract
| Petitioner: | Sensient Colors, LLC |
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| Docket number (legacy and/or former docket number(s)): | FDA-2024-C-0971; (FDA-2018-C-4117) |
| Subject additive and intended use: | amending the color additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of butterfly pea flower extract as a color additive in ready-to-eat cereals, crackers, snack mixes, hard pretzels, plain potato chips (restructured or baked), and plain corn chips, tortilla chips, and multigrain chips at levels consistent with good manufacturing practice (GMP) |
| 21 CFR* affected: | 73.69; Butterfly pea flower extract |
| Substance(s)*, (CAS Registry® No.): |
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| Federal Register publication history: | Feb 8, 2024; 89 FR 8537; Notification of petition. |
| May 12, 2025; 90 FR 20101; Final amendment; order.; Effective date: Jun 26, 2025 | |
| Aug 21, 2025; 90 FR 40704; Final amendment; order; confirmation of effective date.; Effective date: Jun 26, 2025 |
*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)
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