# Indirect Food Additives: Polymers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1997-10-17 · Effective 1997-10-17 · 62 FR 53957
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-27527
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 53957
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 177
- **Publication date:** 1997-10-17
- **Effective date:** 1997-10-17
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 93F-0111
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of Nylon 6/66 copolymers as components of nonfood-contact layers of multilayer food packaging used at temperatures that do not exceed 212 deg.F. This action is in response to a petition filed by Allied-Signal, Inc.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/17/97-27527/indirect-food-additives-polymers)
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