# Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final rule. · Published 1999-08-16 · Effective 1999-08-16 · 64 FR 44406
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-21079
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 44406
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 178
- **Publication date:** 1999-08-16
- **Effective date:** 1999-08-16
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 98F-0571
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of nickel antimony titanium yellow rutile (C.I. Pigment Yellow 53) as a colorant for polymers intended for use in contact with food. This action responds to a petition filed by BASF Corp.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/08/16/99-21079/indirect-food-additives-adjuvants-production-aids-and-sanitizers)
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