# Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Butterfly Pea Flower Extract
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2021-09-02 · Effective 2021-10-05 · 86 FR 49230
## Document
- **Document number:** 2021-18995
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 86 FR 49230
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 73
- **Publication date:** 2021-09-02
- **Effective date:** 2021-10-05
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2018-C-4117
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the color additive regulations to provide for the safe use of an aqueous extract of butterfly pea flower (Clitoria ternatea) as a color additive in various food categories at levels consistent with good manufacturing practice. We are taking this action in response to a color additive petition (CAP) submitted by Exponent, Inc., on behalf of Sensient Colors, LLC (Sensient).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/02/2021-18995/listing-of-color-additives-exempt-from-certification-butterfly-pea-flower-extract)
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