# Indirect Food Additives: Polymers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1998-02-20 · Effective 1998-02-20 · 63 FR 8571
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-4310
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 8571
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 177
- **Publication date:** 1998-02-20
- **Effective date:** 1998-02-20
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 96F-0477
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of polyamide/polyether block copolymers prepared by reacting a copolymer of omega-laurolactam and adipic acid with poly(tetramethylene ether glycol) for use in the manufacture of rubber articles intended for repeated use in contact with food. This action responds to a petition filed by Elf Atochem North America, Inc.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/02/20/98-4310/indirect-food-additives-polymers)
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