Indirect Food Additives: Paper and Paperboard Components

الملخص

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of 2-bromo-2-nitro- 1,3-propanediol as an antimicrobial/preservative in fillers, pigment slurries, starch sizing solutions, and latex coatings used in the manufacture of paper and paperboard articles intended to contact food. This action responds to a food additive petition filed by Betz Laboratories, Inc.