# Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1999-05-12 · Effective 1999-05-12 · 64 FR 25428
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-11899
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 25428
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 178
- **Publication date:** 1999-05-12
- **Effective date:** 1999-05-12
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 98F-0797
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to expand the safe use of 5,7-bis(1,1- dimethylethyl)-3-hydroxy-2(3H)-benzofuranone, reaction products with o- xylene as an antioxidant and/or stabilizer for propylene polymers and copolymers intended for use in contact with food. This action is in response to a petition filed by Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/05/12/99-11899/indirect-food-additives-adjuvants-production-aids-and-sanitizers)
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