[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 4, 1994)]
[Notices]
[Pages 307-308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-38]
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[Federal Register: January 4, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
[Docket No. 93N-0405]
New Monographs and Revisions of Certain Food Chemicals Codex
Monographs; Opportunity for Public Comment
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an
opportunity for public comment on pending changes to certain Food
Chemicals Codex monographs from the third edition and its supplements
and is also soliciting public review of specifications for proposed new
monographs. For certain substances used as food ingredients,
specifications consisting of new monographs and additions, revisions,
and corrections to current monographs are being prepared by the
National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine (NAS/IOM) Committee
on Food Chemicals Codex. This material will be presented in the next
publication of the Food Chemicals Codex (fourth edition). Upon
completion of the review of the comments by the Committee on Food
Chemicals Codex, an announcement will be made in the Federal Register
that copies of the new and revised monographs, as they will appear in
the fourth edition of the Food Chemicals Codex, are available on
request to NAS/IOM. FDA also is giving notice that the fourth
supplement to the third edition has been published and is available
from the National Academy Press.
DATES: Submit written comments by March 7, 1994. The NAS/IOM Committee
on Food Chemicals Codex advises that comments not received by this date
cannot be considered for the next publication but will be considered
for later supplements.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to the NAS/IOM Committee on Food
Chemicals Codex, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave.
NW., Washington, DC 20418.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Fatima N. Johnson, Committee on Food Chemicals Codex, Food and
Nutrition Board, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave.
NW., Washington, DC 20418, 202-334-2580;
or
Paul M. Kuznesof, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-
247), Food and Drug Administration, 200 C St. SW., Washington, DC
20204, 202-254-9537.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FDA provides research contracts to the NAS/
IOM to support the preparation of the Food Chemicals Codex, a
compendium of specifications for substances used as food ingredients.
Before the inclusion of any specifications in a Food Chemicals Codex
publication, public announcement will be made in the Federal Register.
All interested parties are invited to comment and to make suggestions
for consideration. Suggestions should be accompanied by supporting data
or documentation to facilitate and expedite review by the Committee on
Food Chemicals Codex.
In the Federal Registers of January 11, 1991 (56 FR 1198), and
April 9, 1991 (56 FR 14382), FDA announced that the NAS/IOM Committee
on Food Chemicals Codex was considering new monographs and monograph
revisions for inclusion in the third supplement to the Food Chemicals
Codex, third edition, which has since been published. In the Federal
Register of November 22, 1991 (56 FR 58910), FDA announced that the
NAS/IOM Committee on Food Chemicals Codex was considering new
monographs and monograph revisions for inclusion in the fourth
supplement to the Food Chemicals Codex, third edition, which also has
been published. Both supplements are available from the National
Academy Press at the address given above for NAS.
FDA now gives notice that the NAS/IOM Committee on Food Chemicals
Codex is soliciting comments and information on proposed new monographs
and proposed changes to certain current monographs. These new
monographs and changes will be published in the fourth edition of the
Food Chemicals Codex. Copies of the proposed new monographs and
revisions to current monographs may be obtained from NAS at the address
listed above.
FDA emphasizes, however, that it will not consider adopting new
monographs and monograph revisions until the public has had ample
opportunity to comment on the changes and the new monographs. Such
opportunity for public comment will be announced in a subsequent notice
published in the Federal Register.
The NAS/IOM Committee on Food Chemicals Codex invites comments and
suggestions of specifications by all interested parties on the proposed
new monographs and revisions of current monographs, which follow:
I. Proposed New Monographs
Acesulfame potassium
Glyceryl monooleate
II. Current Monographs to which the Committee Proposes to Make
Revisions
Calcium carbonate (lead and heavy metals)
Caramel (numerous revisions)
Calcium disodium EDTA (arsenic, nitrilotriacetic acid)
Disodium EDTA (arsenic, assay, identification, calcium and
nitrilotriacetic acid)
Ethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl methyl
cellulose,
methylcellulose, methyl ethyl cellulose, and sodium carboxymethyl
cellulose (add synonym)
Fumaric acid (assay, identification, maleic acid)
Glutamine (identification)
Hexanes (heavy metals, nonvolatile residue)
Malic Acid (identification, maleic acid)
Methylene chloride (foreign odor)
Sodium stearyl fumarate (sodium stearyl maleate and stearyl alcohol)
Two copies of written comments regarding the monographs listed in
this notice are to be submitted to NAS (address above). Each submission
should include the statement that it is in response to this Federal
Register notice. NAS will forward a copy of each comment to the Dockets
Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, rm. 1-23,
12420 Parklawn Dr., Rockville, MD 20857, to be placed under Docket No.
93N-0405 for public review.
Dated: December 21,1993.
Fred R. Shank,
Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
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