[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 109 (Tuesday, June 8, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 30386]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14518]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

21 CFR Part 178

[Docket No. 97F-0421]


Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and 
Sanitizers; Technical Amendment

AGENCY:  Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION:  Final rule; technical amendment.

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SUMMARY:  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending a final 
rule that appeared in the Federal Register of January 19, 1999 (64 FR 
2854). The document amended the food additive regulations to provide 
for the safe use of di-tert-butyl-m-cresyl phosphonite condensation 
product with biphenyl for use as an antioxidant and/or stabilizer for 
olefin polymers intended for use in contact with food. The document was 
published with an error. This document corrects that error.

DATES:  This regulation is effective January 19, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Hortense S. Macon, Center for Food 
Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-206), Food and Drug Administration, 
200 C St. SW., Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3086.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  In the Federal Register of January 19, 1999 
(64 FR 2854), FDA amended the food additive regulations to provide for 
the safe use of di-tert-butyl-m-cresyl phosphonite condensation product 
with biphenyl for use as an antioxidant and/or stabilizer for olefin 
polymers intended for use in contact with food. The nomenclature of the 
additive was modified to include the term ``meta'' (m). This term was 
placed between ``butyl'' and ``cresyl'' in the name of the subject 
additive and between ``butyl'' and ``cresol'' in the name of one of the 
starting materials to provide more accurate and descriptive names.
    In the preferred chemical nomenclature, the addition of ``m'' 
necessitates the use of a different numbering convention in the name of 
the starting material than is used in the absence of ``m''. In the 
final rule, the agency inadvertently omitted this renumbering in the 
name of the starting material. Therefore, the agency is amending 21 CFR 
178.2010 to correct the error.

List of Subjects in 21 CFR Part 178

    Food additives, Food packaging.
    Therefore, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and under 
authority delegated to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, and 
redelegated to the Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied 
Nutrition, 21 CFR part 178 is amended as follows:

PART 178--INDIRECT FOOD ADDITIVES: ADJUVANTS, PRODUCTION AIDS, AND 
SANITIZERS

    1. The authority citation for 21 CFR part 178 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority:  21 U.S.C. 321, 342, 348, 379e.

Sec. 178.2010  [Amended]

    2. Section 178.2010 Antioxidants and/or stabilizers for polymers is 
amended in the table in paragraph (b) in the entry for ``di-tert-butyl-
m-cresyl phosphonite * * *'' by removing ``2,4-di-tert-butyl-m-cresol'' 
and by adding in its place ``4,6-di-tert-butyl-m-cresol''.

    Dated: June 1, 1999.
L. Robert Lake,
Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Center 
for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
[FR Doc. 99-14518 Filed 6-7-99; 8:45 am]
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