# Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1998-02-23 · Effective 1998-02-23 · 63 FR 8852
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-4530
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 8852
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 178
- **Publication date:** 1998-02-23
- **Effective date:** 1998-02-23
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 97F-0375
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of phosphorous acid, cyclic butylethyl propanediol, 2,4,6-tri-tert- butylphenyl ester, which may contain up to 1 percent by weight of triisopropanolamine, as an antioxidant and/or stabilizer for olefin copolymers intended for use in contact with food. This action is in response to a petition filed by General Electric Co.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/02/23/98-4530/indirect-food-additives-adjuvants-production-aids-and-sanitizers)
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