# Indirect Food Additives: Polymers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1999-05-25 · Effective 1999-05-25 · 64 FR 28097
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-13093
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 28097
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 177
- **Publication date:** 1999-05-25
- **Effective date:** 1999-05-25
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 92F-0368
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of a grafted copolymer of cross-linked sodium polyacrylate with polyvinyl alcohol for use as a fluid absorbent in food-contact material. This action responds to a petition filed by Stockhausen, Inc.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/05/25/99-13093/indirect-food-additives-polymers)
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