# Listing of Color Additives for Coloring Sutures; D&C Violet No. 2
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1998-04-23 · Effective 1998-05-27 · 63 FR 20096
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-10779
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 20096
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 74
- **Publication date:** 1998-04-23
- **Effective date:** 1998-05-27
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 95C-0399
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the color additive regulations to provide for the safe use of D&C Violet No. 2 as a color additive in glycolide/dioxanone/trimethylene carbonate tripolymer absorbable sutures for general surgery. This action responds to a petition filed by United States Surgical Corp.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/04/23/98-10779/listing-of-color-additives-for-coloring-sutures-dandc-violet-no-2)
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