# Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Mica-Based Pearlescent Pigments
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2013-06-12 · Effective 2013-07-15 · 78 FR 35115
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-13857
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 35115
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 73
- **Publication date:** 2013-06-12
- **Effective date:** 2013-07-15
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2012-C-0224
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the color additive regulations to provide for the safe use of mica-based pearlescent pigments prepared from titanium dioxide and mica as color additives in distilled spirits containing not less than 18 percent and not more than 23 percent alcohol by volume but not including distilled spirits mixtures containing more than 5 percent wine on a proof gallon basis. This action is in response to a petition filed by E. & J. Gallo Winery.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/06/12/2013-13857/listing-of-color-additives-exempt-from-certification-mica-based-pearlescent-pigments)
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