# Listing of Color Additives for Coloring Sutures; D&C Violet No. 2
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2000-07-28 · Effective 2000-08-29 · 65 FR 46342
## Document
- **Document number:** 00-19047
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 65 FR 46342
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 74
- **Publication date:** 2000-07-28
- **Effective date:** 2000-08-29
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 99C-1455
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the color additive regulations to provide for the safe use of D&C Violet No. 2 as a color additive in absorbable sutures prepared from homopolymers of glycolide for general surgery. The agency is also revising the nomenclature "polyglactin 910 (glycolic-lactic acid polyester)" to the generic nomenclature "copolymers of 90 percent glycolide and 10 percent L-lactide." This action responds to a petition filed by Genzyme Surgical Products Corp.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/07/28/00-19047/listing-of-color-additives-for-coloring-sutures-dandc-violet-no-2)
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