# Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1999-05-18 · Effective 1999-05-18 · 64 FR 26842
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-12394
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 26842
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 178
- **Publication date:** 1999-05-18
- **Effective date:** 1999-05-18
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 92F-0285
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of bis(p- ethylbenzylidene) sorbitol as a clarifying agent for polypropylene articles intended for use in contact with food. This action responds to a petition filed by Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc. (now Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/05/18/99-12394/indirect-food-additives-adjuvants-production-aids-and-sanitizers)
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