# Food Additives Permitted in Feed and Drinking Water of Animals; Calcium Formate
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2023-12-19 · Effective 2023-12-19 · 88 FR 87670
## Document
- **Document number:** 2023-27857
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 88 FR 87670
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 573
- **Publication date:** 2023-12-19
- **Effective date:** 2023-12-19
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2020-F-0151
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, we, or the Agency) is amending the regulations for food additives permitted in feed and drinking water of animals to provide for the safe use of calcium formate as a feed acidifying agent, to lower the pH, in complete swine and poultry feeds at levels not to exceed 1.2 percent of the complete feed. This action is in response to a food additive petition filed by LANXESS Corp.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/19/2023-27857/food-additives-permitted-in-feed-and-drinking-water-of-animals-calcium-formate)
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