[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 238 (Monday, December 13, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 69538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-32100]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. 96F-0293]
Avecia 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 6B4516) proposing that the food additive regulations be
amended to provide for the safe use of 2-methyl-4,5-trimethylene-4-
isothiazolin-3-one as a preservative for paper and paperboard coatings
used in contact with food.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vir D. Anand, Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition (HFS-215), Food and Drug Administration, 200 C
St. SW., Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3081.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice published in the Federal
Register of August 27, 1996 (61 FR 44067), FDA announced that a food
additive petition (FAP 6B4516) had been filed by Zeneca Inc.,
Foulkstone 1405, 2d, 1800 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19850-5457. The
petition proposed to amend the food additive regulations in
Sec. 176.170 Components of paper and paperboard in contact with aqueous
and fatty foods (21 CFR 176.170) to provide for the safe use of 2-
methyl-4,5-trimethylene-4-isothiazolin-3-one as a preservative for
paper and paperboard coatings used in contact with food. Since
publication of the filing notice, Zeneca Inc.'s, specialty chemicals
group has been spun-off to form a new company, Avecia Inc., 1405 Foulk
Rd., Wilmington, DE 19850-5457. Avecia Inc., has now withdrawn the
petition without prejudice to a future filing (21 CFR 171.7).
Dated: November 29, 1999.
Alan M. Rulis,
Director, Office of Premarket Approval, Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition.
[FR Doc. 99-32100 Filed 12-10-99; 8:45 am]
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