[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 66 (Monday, April 7, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 16804]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8335]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 99F-2999]


Ciba Specialty Chemicals; 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 9B4686) proposing that the food additive regulations be 
amended to provide for the safe use of benzenepropanoic acid, 3,5- 
bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-hydroxy-, C7-C9-branched alkyl esters as an 
antioxidant and/or stabilizer for adhesives.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Hepp, Center for Food Safety and 
Applied Nutrition (HFS-275), Food and Drug Administration, 5100 Paint 
Branch Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740-3858, 202-418-3098.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice published in the Federal 
Register of September 7, 1999 (64 FR 48654), FDA announced that a food 
additive petition (FAP 9B4686) had been filed by Ciba Specialty 
Chemicals, 540 White Plains Rd., P.O. Box 2005, Tarrytown, NY 10591-
9005. The petition proposed to amend the food additive regulations in 
Sec.  178.2010 Antioxidants and/or stabilizers for polymers (21 CFR 
178.2010) to provide for the safe use of benzenepropanoic acid, 3,5- 
bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-hydroxy-, C7-C9-branched alkyl esters as an 
antioxidant and/or stabilizer for adhesives. Ciba Specialty Chemicals 
has now withdrawn the petition without prejudice to a future filing (21 
CFR 171.7).

    Dated: March 20, 2003.
Alan M. Rulis,
Director, Office of Food Additive Safety, Center for Food Safety and 
Applied Nutrition.
[FR Doc. 03-8335 Filed 4-4-03; 8:45 am]
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