Food and Drug Administration
Food and Drug Administration's Categorical Exclusions (opens in new tab)Categorical Exclusion
§25.32 Foods, food additives, and color additives.
Exclusion Text
(k) Approval of a food additive petition or color additive petition, establishment or amendment of a regulation for a food substance as GRAS under the conditions of its intended use for humans or animals under parts 182, 184, 186, 582, or 584 of this chapter, or allowing a notification submitted under 21 U.S.C. 348(h) to become effective, for substances added directly to food that are intended to remain in food through ingestion by consumers and that are not intended to replace macronutrients in food.
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