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Final Rules and Final Orders: Food Additives and Color Additives
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Petition(s): FAP 9B4129

Indirect Food Additives: Polymers

Petitioner: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.
Docket number (legacy and/or former docket number(s)): (89F-0051)
Subject additive and intended use: amending the food additive regulations to provide for an increase in the permitted fluorine content of vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropene copolymers, for an increase in the weight-percent of vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropene copolymers used as adjuvants in the production of olefin polymers, and for the use of vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropene copolymers in olefin polymers in contact with alcoholic foods
21 CFR* affected: 177.1520; Olefin polymers
Substance(s)*, (CAS Registry® No.):
  • vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropene copolymer, (9011-17-0)
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    Federal Register publication history: Mar 15, 1989; 54 FR 10727; Notice
    May 3, 1990; 55 FR 18596; Final rule; Effective date: May 3, 1990


     

    *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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