# Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Silver Nitrate
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2021-10-06 · Effective 2021-11-08 · 86 FR 55494
## Document
- **Document number:** 2021-21755
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 86 FR 55494
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 73
- **Publication date:** 2021-10-06
- **Effective date:** 2021-11-08
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2018-C-0617
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the color additive regulations to provide for the safe use of silver nitrate as a color additive in professional-use only cosmetics to color eyebrows and eyelashes. This action is in response to a color additive petition (CAP) filed by GW Cosmetics GmbH.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/10/06/2021-21755/listing-of-color-additives-exempt-from-certification-silver-nitrate)
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