Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers

Resumen

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of phosphorous acid, cyclic butylethyl propanediol, 2,4,6-tri-tert- butylphenyl ester, which may contain up to 1 percent by weight of triisopropanolamine, as an antioxidant and/or stabilizer for olefin copolymers intended for use in contact with food. This action is in response to a petition filed by General Electric Co.