# Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1998-12-11 · Effective 1998-12-11 · 63 FR 68391
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-32907
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 68391
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 178
- **Publication date:** 1998-12-11
- **Effective date:** 1998-12-11
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 98F-0291
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of sodium 2,2'-methylenebis(4,6-di-tert-butylphenyl)phosphate as a clarifying agent in olefin polymers intended for use in 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/1998/12/11/98-32907/indirect-food-additives-adjuvants-production-aids-and-sanitizers)
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