[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 63 (Thursday, April 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 16264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8569]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. 95F-0174]


Ecolab, Inc.; 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 a future filing, of a food additive 
petition (FAP 5B4462) proposing that the food additive regulations be 
amended to provide for the safe use of nonanoic acid, lactic acid, 
citric acid, sodium 1-octane sulfonate, tertiary butylhydroquinone, and 
the sodium salt of tetrapropylene-1,1-oxybis-benzenesulfonic acid as 
components of a sanitizing solution intended for general use on food-
contact surfaces.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John R. Bryce, Center for Food Safety 
and Applied Nutrition (HFS-215), Food and Drug Administration, 200 C 
St. SW., Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3023.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice published in the Federal 
Register of July 18, 1995 (60 FR 36811), FDA announced that a food 
additive petition (FAP 5B4462) had been filed by H. B. Fuller Co. The 
petition proposed to amend the food additive regulations in 
Sec. 178.1010 Sanitizing solutions (21 CFR 178.1010) to provide for the 
safe use of nonanoic acid, lactic acid, citric acid, sodium 1-octane 
sulfonate, tertiary butylhydroquinone, and the sodium salt of 
tetrapropylene-1,1-oxybis-benzenesulfonic acid as components of a 
sanitizing solution intended for general use on food-contact surfaces. 
Since publication of the filing notice, the division of H. B. Fuller 
Co. responsible for this petition has been purchased by Ecolab, Inc., 
370 North Wabasha St., St. Paul, MN 55102. Ecolab, Inc. has now 
withdrawn the petition without prejudice to a future filing (21 CFR 
171.7).

    Dated: March 17, 1998.
Laura M. Tarantino,
Acting Director, Office of Premarket Approval, Center for Food Safety 
and Applied Nutrition.
[FR Doc. 98-8569 Filed 4-1-98; 8:45 am]
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