# Indirect Food Additives: Adhesives and Components of Coatings
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2013-07-12 · Effective 2013-07-12 · 78 FR 41840
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-16684
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 41840
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 175
- **Publication date:** 2013-07-12
- **Effective date:** 2013-07-12
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2012-F-0728
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the food additive regulations to no longer provide for the use of Bisphenol A (BPA)-based epoxy resins as coatings in packaging for infant formula because these uses have been abandoned. We are taking this action in response to a petition dated March 16, 2012.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/07/12/2013-16684/indirect-food-additives-adhesives-and-components-of-coatings)
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