# Indirect Food Additives: Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers
> **Food and Drug Administration** · Final Rule. · Published 1999-09-03 · Effective 1999-09-03 · 64 FR 48291
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-23001
- **Category:** fda-food
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Drug Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 48291
- **CFR reference:** 21 CFR 178
- **Publication date:** 1999-09-03
- **Effective date:** 1999-09-03
- **HHS docket:** Docket No. 98F-1122
## Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the food additive regulations to provide for the safe use of dimethylolpropionic acid as a pigment dispersant for pigments used as components of food- contact articles. This action is in response to a petition filed by Geo Specialty Chemicals.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/09/03/99-23001/indirect-food-additives-adjuvants-production-aids-and-sanitizers)
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