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 Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: April 5, 2024)
 Title 21 - Food and Drugs
 Chapter I - Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services
 SubChapter B - Food for Human Consumption
 Part 181 - Prior-Sanctioned Food Ingredients
 Subpart B - Specific Prior-Sanctioned Food Ingredients

  § 181.27 - Plasticizers.  

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  • § 181.27 Plasticizers.

    Substances classified as plasticizers, when migrating from food-packaging material shall include:

    Acetyl tributyl citrate.

    Acetyl triethyl citrate.

    p-tert-Butylphenyl salicylate.

    Butyl stearate.

    Butylphthalyl butyl glycolate.

    Dibutyl sebacate.

    Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (for foods of high water content only).

    Diethyl phthalate.

    Diisobutyl adipate.

    Diisooctyl phthalate (for foods of high water content only).

    Diphenyl-2-ethylhexyl phosphate.

    Epoxidized soybean oil (iodine number maximum 6; and oxirane oxygen, minimum, 6.0 percent).

    Ethylphthalyl ethyl glycolate.

    Glycerol monooleate.

    Monoisopropyl citrate.

    Mono, di-, and tristearyl citrate.

    Triacetin (glycerol triacetate).

    Triethyl citrate.

    3-(2-Xenolyl)-1,2-epoxypropane.

    [42 FR 14638, Mar. 15, 1977; 42 FR 56728, Oct. 28, 1977, as amended at 50 FR 49536, Dec. 3, 1985]