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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Food Additive and Color Additive Petitions Under Review or Held in Abeyance
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December 15, 2025

The following table is a listing of food additive and color additive petitions filed by FDA's Office of Food Additive Safety (OFAS) that are either under active review or held in abeyance as of the date shown above. This list does not reflect petitions filed after that date, or any change in status for the listed petitions that has occurred after that date.

Abeyance is an administrative category of petitions that are filed but non-active because of deficiencies that were identified during FDA’s review. A petition remains in abeyance until either the petitioner provides OFAS with the required information, requests a final decision based on the data currently in the petition, or requests withdrawal of the petition. When the petitioner provides the information required to address all deficiencies, the petition may be refiled resulting in a new filing date.

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Petition Type/Number
(sorted A-Z) 		Status Petitioner Title
CAP 3C0325 under review Environmental Defense Fund, Center for Environmental Health, Center for Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Environmental Working Group Request to Revoke Color Additive Listing for Use of Titanium Dioxide in Food
CAP 4C0326 under review Phytolon Ltd. To amend the color additive regulations in 21 CFR part 73 to provide for the safe use of beetroot red for the coloring of foods generally in amounts consistent with current good manufacturing practice.
CAP 4C0327 under review Environmental Defense Fund, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, Center for Environmental Health, Environmental Working Group, and Lisa Lefferts To amend the color additive regulations to remove the solvents ethylene dichloride, methylene chloride, and trichloroethylene
CAP 4C0334 under review GNT USA, LLC To amend the color additive regulations in part 73 (21 CFR part 73), Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification, to provide for the safe use of spirulina extract in foods generally in amounts consistent with good manufacturing practice.
CAP 5C0336 under review Impossible Foods To amend the color additive regulations to expand the safe use of soy leghemoglobin to include safe use in plant-based meat, poultry, and fish analogue products
FAP 0A4216 under review Glenn Scott Petition to prohibit the use of BHA.
FAP 1A4829 under review Lallemand Inc. To amend the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of vitamin D2 heat-killed ("inactive") baker's yeast as a source of vitamin D2 in specific food categories
FAP 2A4834 under review Kerry Ingredients and Flavours Ltd. To provide for the safe use of vitamin D3 as a nutrient supplement in powdered drink mixes added to water or carbonated water at levels not to exceed 180 international units per 360 milliliters (mL) as consumed, excluding drinks or drink mixes that are specially formulated or processed for infants (Refs. 1 and 2). If calcium is added, calcium is present at levels greater than or equal to 150 milligrams of calcium per 360 mL as consumed.
FAP 2B4831 under review Environmental Defense Fund, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, Clean Water Action, Consumer Reports, Endocrine Society, Environmental Working Group, Healthy Babies Bright Futures, Maricel Maffini, and Linda Birnbaum To amend the food additive regulations to remove or restrict authorizations for the use of bisphenol A (BPA).
FAP 3B4837 under review Environmental Defense Fund, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, Center for Food Safety, Environmental Working Group, Tom Neltner, and Maricel Maffini To amend the food additive regulations to remove authorization of fluorinated polyethylene
FAP 4A4839 under review Environmental Defense Fund, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, Center for Environmental Health, Environmental Working Group, and Lisa Lefferts To amend the food additive regulations to remove the solvents benzene, ethylene dichloride, methylene chloride, and trichloroethylene
FAP 5A4841 under review Monterey Mushrooms, LLC To amend 21 CFR 172.382 with the addition of vitamin D2 mushroom powder manufactured by exposing sliced or diced edible cultivars of Agaricus bisporus to ultraviolet light
FAP 5M4840 under review Leprino Nutrition To amend the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of ultraviolet light for the reduction of microorganisms
Petition Type/Number
(sorted A-Z) 		Status Petitioner Title
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