Food additive petitions: Avecia Inc.,

[Federal Register: December 13, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 238)]

[Notices]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. 96F-0293]

Avecia Inc.; Withdrawal of Food Additive Petition

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the withdrawal, without prejudice to a future filing, of a food additive petition (FAP 6B4516) proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of 2-methyl-4,5-trimethylene-4- isothiazolin-3-one as a preservative for paper and paperboard coatings used in contact with food.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vir D. Anand, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-215), Food and Drug Administration, 200 C St. SW., Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3081.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice published in the Federal Register of August 27, 1996 (61 FR 44067), FDA announced that a food additive petition (FAP 6B4516) had been filedby Zeneca Inc., Foulkstone 1405, 2d, 1800 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19850-5457. The petition proposed to amend the food additive regulations in Sec. 176.170 Components of paper and paperboard in contact with aqueous and fatty foods (21 CFR 176.170) to provide for the safe use of 2- methyl-4,5-trimethylene-4-isothiazolin-3-one as a preservative for paper and paperboard coatings used in contact with food. Since publication of the filing notice, Zeneca Inc.'s, specialty chemicals group has been spun-off to form a new company, Avecia Inc., 1405 Foulk Rd., Wilmington, DE 19850-5457. Avecia Inc., has now withdrawn the petition without prejudice to a future filing (21 CFR 171.7).

Dated: November 29, 1999. Alan M. Rulis, Director, Office of Premarket Approval, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

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