# Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1996-10-03 · Effective 1996-10-03 · 61 FR 51587
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-25258
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 51587
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 178
- **Publication date:** 1996-10-03
- **Effective date:** 1996-10-03
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 95F-0175
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to expand the safe use of sodium 2,2'-methylenebis (4,6-di-tert-butylphenyl) phosphate as a clarifying agent in polypropylene articles intended for contact with food. This action is in response to a petition filed by Asahi Denka Kogyo K.K.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/10/03/96-25258/indirect-food-additives-adjuvants-production-aids-and-sanitizers)
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