# Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1998-10-20 · Effective 1998-10-20 · 63 FR 55944
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-27992
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 55944
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 178
- **Publication date:** 1998-10-20
- **Effective date:** 1998-10-20
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 98F-0292
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of 2-methyl- 4,6-bis[(octylthio)methyl]phenol intended for use in food-contact applications. This action is in response to a petition filed by Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/10/20/98-27992/indirect-food-additives-adjuvants-production-aids-and-sanitizers)
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