# Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human Consumption; Sucralose
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1998-04-03 · Effective 1998-04-03 · 63 FR 16417
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-8750
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 16417
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 172
- **Publication date:** 1998-04-03
- **Effective date:** 1998-04-03
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 87F-0086
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of sucralose as a nonnutritive sweetener in food. This action is in response to a petition filed by McNeil Specialty Products Co.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/04/03/98-8750/food-additives-permitted-for-direct-addition-to-food-for-human-consumption-sucralose)
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