21 CFR § 112.174 - What information submitted in a petition requesting a variance or submitted in comments on such a petition are publicly available?

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t21/s112.174"
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title: "21 CFR § 112.174 - What information submitted in a petition requesting a variance or submitted in comments on such a petition are publicly available?"
title_number: 21
title_name: "Food and Drugs"
section_number: "112.174"
section_name: "What information submitted in a petition requesting a variance or submitted in comments on such a petition are publicly available?"
chapter_name: "FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION"
part_number: "112"
part_name: "STANDARDS FOR THE GROWING, HARVESTING, PACKING, AND HOLDING OF PRODUCE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "21 U.S.C. 321, 331, 342, 350h, 371; 42 U.S.C. 243, 264, 271."
regulatory_source: "80 FR 74547, Nov. 27, 2015, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "112"
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# 112.174 What information submitted in a petition requesting a variance or submitted in comments on such a petition are publicly available?

We will presume that information submitted in a petition requesting a variance and comments submitted on such a petition, including a request that a variance be applied to its similarly situated persons, does not contain information exempt from public disclosure under part 20 of this chapter and will be made public as part of the docket associated with this request.