# Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Spirulina Extract
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2017-07-03 · Effective 2017-08-03 · 82 FR 30731
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-13867
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 30731
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 73
- **Publication date:** 2017-07-03
- **Effective date:** 2017-08-03
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2016-C-2570
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the color additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of spirulina extract to seasonally color hard-boiled shell eggs at levels consistent with good manufacturing practice (GMP). This action is in response to a color additive petition (CAP) filed by McCormick & Company, Inc. (McCormick).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/07/03/2017-13867/listing-of-color-additives-exempt-from-certification-spirulina-extract)
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