# Direct Food Substances Affirmed as Generally Recognized as Safe; Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Ferrous Lactate
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1996-08-02 · Effective 1996-08-02 · 61 FR 40317
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-19305
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 40317
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 73
- **Publication date:** 1996-08-02
- **Effective date:** 1996-08-02
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 93G-0017
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its regulations to affirm that ferrous lactate is generally recognized as safe (GRAS) as a color fixative on ripe olives. The agency is adding this use of ferrous lactate as a color fixative on ripe olives to the other uses for ferrous lactate. The agency is also amending this regulation to permit additional methods of synthesis for ferrous lactate. This action is in response to a petition filed by Purac America, Inc. The agency, on its own initiative, is also amending its color additive regulations to provide for the safe use of ferrous lactate for the coloring of ripe olives.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/08/02/96-19305/direct-food-substances-affirmed-as-generally-recognized-as-safe-listing-of-color-additives-exempt)
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