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Final Rules and Final Orders: Food Additives and Color Additives
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Petition(s): FAP 5B3873

Indirect Food Additives; Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers

Petitioner: Sherex Chemical Co., Inc.
Docket number (legacy and/or former docket number(s)): (87F-0309)
Subject additive and intended use: amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of a mixture of dodecyltin S,S',S"-tris(isooctylmercaptoacetate) and di(n-dodecyl)tin S,S'-di(isooctylmercaptoacetate) as a thermal stabilizer for vinyl chloride homopolymers and copolymers intended for use in contact with food
21 CFR* affected: 178.2650; Organotin stabilizers in vinyl chloride plastics
Substance(s)*, (CAS Registry® No.):
  • dodecyltin S,S',S''-tris(isooctylmercaptoacetate), (67649-65-4)
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  • didodecyltin S,S'-di(isooctylmercaptoacetate), (84030-61-5)
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    Federal Register publication history: Oct 7, 1987; 52 FR 37525; Notice
    Feb 14, 1989; 54 FR 6657; Final Rule; Effective date: Feb 14, 1989


     

    *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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