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CPG Sec 500.425 Use of Color Additives in Paper and Paperboard Intended for Use with Food

FinalHuman Foods Program Office of Inspections and Investigations11/29/2005

Description

In response to inquiries about the use of color additives as colorants in paper and paperboard intended for use in contact with food, FDA provides the following advice: (Note this advice is a clarification of advice issued as an advisory opinion by the Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs on September 18, 1979, (Docket Number 79A-0165/AP).

Scope & Applicability

Product Classes

1
Paper and Paperboard

Intended for use in contact with food

Stakeholders

2
Division of Enforcement

Division of Enforcement (HFS-605) as to the status of the color additive

Office of Food Additive Safety

Office within CFSAN overseeing food additive safety evaluations

Identified Hazards

Hazards

1
Migration

Colorants should not impart a color to the food by migration

Related CFR Sections (2)

See Also (8)