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Final Rules and Final Orders: Food Additives and Color Additives
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Petition(s): FAP 7B3986

Indirect Food Additives: Paper and Paperboard Components

Petitioner: Hercules, Inc.
Docket number (legacy and/or former docket number(s)): (87F-0239)
Subject additive and intended use: amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of a polyamide-epichlorohydrin resin prepared by reacting N-methyl-bis (3-aminopropyl) amine with oxalic acid and urea to form a basic polyamide and further reacting the polyamide with epichlorohydrin. The polyamide-epichlorohydrin resin will be used to impart wet strength to paper and paperboard in contract with aqueous and fatty foods
21 CFR* affected: 176.170; Components of paper and paperboard in contact with aqueous and fatty foods
Substance(s)*, (CAS Registry® No.):
  • ethanedioic acid, polymer with N-(3-aminopropyl)-N-methyl-1,3-propanediamine and urea, (96387-48-3)
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    Federal Register publication history: Aug 17, 1987; 52 FR 30740; Notice
    Jun 5, 1992; 57 FR 23947; Final rule; Effective date: Jun 5, 1992


     

    *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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