# Indirect Food Additives: Paper and Paperboard Components
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2016-01-04 · Effective 2016-01-04 · 81 FR 5
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-33026
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 5
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 176
- **Publication date:** 2016-01-04
- **Effective date:** 2016-01-04
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2015-F-0714
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the food additive regulations to no longer provide for the use of three specific perfluoroalkyl ethyl containing food-contact substances (FCSs) as oil and water repellants for paper and paperboard for use in contact with aqueous and fatty foods because new data are available as to the toxicity of substances structurally similar to these compounds that demonstrate there is no longer a reasonable certainty of no harm from the food-contact use of these FCSs. This action is in response to a petition filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Center for Food Safety, the Breast Cancer Fund, the Center for Environmental Health, Clean Water Action, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Children's Environmental Health Network, Environmental Working Group, and Improving Kids' Environment.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/01/04/2015-33026/indirect-food-additives-paper-and-paperboard-components)
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