# Withdrawal of Food Additive Petitions Subsequently Converted to Food Contact Notifications
**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 19 food additive petitions proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of certain new food additives. The petitioners subsequently requested that their petitions be converted to food-contact notifications for review under the agency's new premarket notification (PMN) program for food-contact substances. The requested uses are now the subjects of effective notifications.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Mark Hepp, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-215), Food and Drug Administration, 200 C St. SW., Washington, DC 20204, 202-418-3098.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
In notices published in the *Federal Register* (FR), on the dates indicated in the table below, FDA announced the filing of 19 food additive petitions. These petitions proposed to amend the food additive regulations in the sections listed in the table to provide for the safe use of the listed substances intended for use in food-contact articles. Since publication of these filing notices, the petitioners have requested that their respective petitions be converted to food-contact notifications for review under the agency's new PMN process for food-contact substances and that their petitions be withdrawn when the corresponding notifications become effective. These petitions were converted to notifications and subsequently reviewed under the the PMN process. The requested uses are now the subjects of effective notifications. The corresponding food additive petitions are now withdrawn without prejudice to a future filing (21 CFR 171.7).
| FAP No.
and Docket No. | FCN No. | FR Citation and Date | Company | Section/Part | Additive | Use |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 9B4662, | 1 | 64 FR 28000, | Milliken & Co. c/o Keller & Heckman. | Proposed new section in part 178. | Silver sodium hydrogen zirconium phosphate | Antimicrobial for |
| 8B4632, | 3 | 63 FR 67075, | Rohm and Haas Co. c/o Keller & Heckman. | 176.170 | Styrene acrylic copolymers | Paper and paperboard coating. |
| 8B4564, | 5 | 63 FR 5808, | Currently, BP Amoco | 177.1480 | Nitrile rubber modified acrylonitrile-methyl | Beverage containers. |
| 5B4455, | 4 | 60 FR 22400, | Currently, BP Amoco | 177.1630 | Ethylene terephthalate-isophthalate copolymers | Components of food-contact |
| 5B4450, | 8 | 60 FR 32526, | Shell Chemicals Co. | 177.1630 | Ethylene terephthalate polymers containing less | Components of food-contact |
| 5B4451, | 9 | 60 FR 32159, | Shell Chemicals Co. | Proposed new section in part 177. | Poly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyloxycarbonyl-2,6- | Components of food-contact |
| 8B4582, 98F-0058 | 10 | 63 FR 6571, | Currently, Sekisui Plastics Co., Ltd. c/o Ungaretti & | 177.1630 | Pyromellitic dianhydride | Modifier in ethylene |
| 7B4558, | 12 | 62 FR 51873, | Sveriges Starkelseproducenter c/o Kirschman Assoc. | 178.3520 | Industrial starch modified with up to 21 percent | Component of food-contact articles. |
| 9B4685, | 19 | 64 FR 47843, | The Goodyear Tire & | 175.300 | Piperylene/2-methyl-2-butene/ | Can end cement. |
| 9B4645, 99F-0804 | 11 | 64 FR 19182, | Rohm and Haas Co. | 176.170 and | 4,5-Dichloro-2-n-octyl 3 (2H)-isothiazolone | Preservative and |
| 7B4554, | 15 | 62 FR 52137, | Stilbene Whitening Agent Task Force c/o Keller & Heckman. | 176.170 | Benzenesulfonic acid, 2,2-(1,2-ethenediyl)bis[5- | Optical brightner in paper and paperboard. |
| 8B4617, | 20 | 63 FR 46226, | Asahi Denka Kogyo, K.K. c/o Japan Technical Information Center, Inc. | 178.2010 | 2,2′-methylenebis(4,6-di-tert-butylphenyl)2- | Antioxidant and/or |
| 8B4599, | 21 | 63 FR 34188, | Asahi Denka Kogyo, K.K. c/o Japan Technical Information Center, Inc. | 178.2010 | 2,2′-methylenebis(4,6-di-tert-butylphenyl)2 | Antioxidant and/or stabilizer in high density polyethylene. |
| 9B4679, | 22 | 64 FR 43189, | Asahi Denka Kogyo, K.K. c/o Japan Technical Information Center, Inc. | 178.2010 | Phosphorous acid, cyclic neopentanetetrayl | Antioxidant and/or stabilizer in polyolefins. |
| 9B4667, | 23 | 64 FR 36361, | Engelhard Corp. | 178.3297 | Solution of 1-naphthalenesulfonic acid, | Colorant for polymers. |
| 7A4541, | 30 | 62 FR 25633, | Currently, Betz Dearborn c/o Keller and Heckman | 173.310 | Copolymer of acrylic acid and | Boiler water additive. |
| 9B4694, | 29 | 64 FR 48654, | Asahi Denka Kogyo, K.K. | 178.2010 | Tridecanol phosphite condensation product | Antioxidant and/or |
| 9B4691, | 25 | 64 FR 49496, | Engelhard Corp. | 178.3297 | 1-naphthelenesulfonic acid, 2-[(4,5-dihydro-3-methyl- 5-oxo-1-(3- | Colorant for polymers. |
| 9B4698, | 26 | 64 FR 58070, | Engelhard Corp. | 178.3297 | A solid solution of 2-naphthalene sulfonic acid, | Colorant for polymers. |
Dated: June 28, 2000.
Alan M. Rulis,
Director, Office of Premarket Approval, Center for food Safety and Applied Nutrition.