# Indirect Food Additives: Adhesives and Components of Coatings
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1996-03-12 · Effective 1996-03-12 · 61 FR 9903
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-5812
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 9903
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 175
- **Publication date:** 1996-03-12
- **Effective date:** 1996-03-12
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 93F-0358
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of meta- tetramethylxylene diisocyanate for reaction with one or more of the polyols and polyesters listed in the adhesive regulations and with dimethylolpropionic acid and trimethylamine, N-methyldiethanolamine, 2- dimethylaminoethanol, 2-dimethylamino-2-methyl-1-propanol, and/or 2- amino-2-methyl-1-propanol in the production of polyurethane resins intended for use as components of adhesive formulations used in food packaging applications. This action is in response to a petition filed by Cytec Industries. DATES: Effective March 12, 1996; written objections and requests for a hearing by April 11, 1996.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/03/12/96-5812/indirect-food-additives-adhesives-and-components-of-coatings)
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