# Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Butterfly Pea Flower Extract; Confirmation of Effective Date
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final amendment; order; confirmation of effective date. · Published 2025-08-21 · Effective 2025-06-26 · 90 FR 40704
## Document
- **Document number:** 2025-16045
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 90 FR 40704
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 73
- **Publication date:** 2025-08-21
- **Effective date:** 2025-06-26
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. FDA-2024-C-0971
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is confirming the effective date of June 26, 2025, for the final order that appeared in the Federal Register of May 12, 2025. The final order amends the color additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of butterfly pea flower extract as a color additive at levels consistent with good manufacturing practice (GMP) in: ready-to-eat cereals, crackers, snack mixes, hard pretzels, plain potato chips (restructured or baked), and plain corn chips, tortilla chips, and multigrain chips.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/21/2025-16045/listing-of-color-additives-exempt-from-certification-butterfly-pea-flower-extract-confirmation-of)
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