[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 375-376]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-47]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 99F-2081]


Troy Corp.; Filing of Food Additive Petition; Amendment

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the filing 
notice for a food additive petition filed by Troy Corp. to indicate 
that the petitioner has proposed that the food additive regulations be 
amended to provide for the safe use of butanedioic acid, sulfo-1,4-
diisodecyl ester, ammonium salt as a surface active agent in adhesives, 
in pressure-sensitive adhesives, and in paper and paperboard intended 
to contact food.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark A. Hepp, Center for Food Safety 
and Applied Nutrition (HFS-215), Food and Drug Administration, 200 C 
St. SW., Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3098.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice published in the Federal 
Register of July 2, 1999 (64 FR 36021), FDA announced that a food 
additive petition (FAP 9B4678) had been filed by Troy Corp., c/o S. L. 
Graham & Associates, 1801 Peachtree Lane, Bowie, MD 20721. The petition 
proposed to amend the food additive regulations in Sec. 175.125 
Pressure-sensitive adhesives (21 CFR 175.125) to provide for the safe 
use of butanedioic acid, sulfo-1,4-diisodecyl ester, ammonium salt as a 
surface active agent in pressure sensitive adhesives.
    Subsequent to the publication of the filing notice, the petition 
was amended to include a proposal to further amend the food additive 
regulations in 21 CFR 175.105 Adhesives, 21 CFR 176.170 Components of 
paper and paperboard in contact with aqueous and fatty food, 21 CFR 
176.180 Components of paper and paperboard in contact with dry foods, 
and 21 CFR 178.3400 Emulsifiers and/or surface active agents to provide 
for the safe use of butanedioic acid, sulfo-1,4-diisodecyl ester, 
ammonium salt as a surface active agent in adhesives, and in paper and 
paperboard intended to contact food.
    Therefore, FDA is amending the filing notice of July 2, 1999, to 
indicate that the petitioner requests that the food

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additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of 
butanedioic acid, sulfo-1,4-diisodecyl ester, ammonium salt as a 
surface active agent in adhesives, in pressure sensitive adhesives, and 
in paper and paperboard intended to contact food.
    The agency had previously determined under 21 CFR 25.32(i) that 
this action is of a type that does not individually or cumulatively 
have a significant effect on the human environment. Therefore, neither 
an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is 
required.

    Dated: November 22, 2000.
Alan M. Rulis,
Director, Office of Premarket Approval, Center for Food Safety and 
Applied Nutrition.
[FR Doc. 01-47 Filed 1-2-01; 8:45 am]
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