# Zentox Corporation; Withdrawal of Food Additive Petition
**AGENCY:**
Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
**ACTION:**
Notice of withdrawal.
**SUMMARY:**
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing the withdrawal, without prejudice to a future filing, of a food additive petition (FAP 8A4775) proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to provide for the safe use of monochloramine as an antimicrobial agent in poultry process chiller water.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Judith Kidwell, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS-265), Food and Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740-3835, 240-402-1071.
**DATES:**
May 14, 2013.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
In a notice published in the *Federal Register* of September 3, 2008 (73 FR 51490), we announced that Zentox Corp., c/o Burdock Group, 801 North Orange Ave., suite 710, Orlando, FL 32801, had filed a food additive petition (FAP 8A4775). The petition proposed to amend the food additive regulations in part 173— *Secondary Direct Food Additives Permitted in Food for Human Consumption* (21 CFR part 173) to provide for the safe use of monochloramine as an antimicrobial agent in poultry process chiller water. Zentox Corp. has now withdrawn the petition without prejudice to a future filing (21 CFR 171.7).
Dated: May 9, 2013.
Dennis M. Keefe,
Director, Office of Food Additive Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.