[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 136 (Monday, July 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 36886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17826]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. 90F-0063]


Henkel Corp.; Withdrawal of Food Additive Petition

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the 
withdrawal, without prejudice to future filing, of a food additive 
petition (FAP 0B4194) proposing that the food additive regulations be 
amended to provide for the safe use of a mixed ester product resulting 
from the reaction of pentaerythritol and dipentaerythritol with 
C14-C22 fatty acids as a release agent for ethylene-1,4-
cyclohexylene dimethylene terephthalate copolymers, polyethylene 
phthalate polymers, and poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) intended to 
contact food.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mitchell A. Cheeseman, Center for Food 
Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-217), Food and Drug Administration, 
200 C St. SW., Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3083.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice published in the Federal 
Register of March 15, 1990 (55 FR 9772), FDA announced that a food 
additive petition (0B4194) had been filed by Henkel Corp., Organic 
Products Division, 300 Brookside Ave., Ambler, PA 19002, (Currently c/o 
Bruce A. Schwemmer, Bruce EnviroExcel Group, Inc., 94 Buttermilk Bridge 
Rd., Washington, NJ 07882). The petition proposed to amend the food 
additive regulations in Sec. 178.3860 Release agents (21 CFR 178.3860) 
to provide for the safe use of a mixed ester product resulting from the 
reaction of pentaerythritol and dipentaerythritol with C14-
C22 fatty acids as a release agent for ethylene-1,4-cyclohexylene 
dimethylene terephthalate copolymers, polyethylene phthalate polymers, 
and poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) intended to contact food. Henkel 
Corp. has now withdrawn the petition without prejudice to a future 
filing (21 CFR 171.7).

    Dated: June 25, 1996.
Alan M. Rulis,
Director, Office of Premarket Approval, Center for Food Safety and 
Applied Nutrition.
[FR Doc. 96-17826 Filed 7-12-96; 8:45 am]
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