United States:
FDA Amends Food Additive Regulations
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In the May 4, 2017, Federal Register, FDA
amended the food additive regulations to no longer provide for the
use of potassium perchlorate as an additive in closure-sealing
gaskets for food containers because this use has been abandoned.
This action, taken in response to a petition filed by Keller and
Heckman LLP on behalf of the Society of the Plastics Industry,
Inc., means that use of potassium perchlorate covered by the
regulation is no longer authorized.
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