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title: "21 CFR §170.205"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-170.205"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "3"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "B"

subchapter_subject: "FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (CONTINUED)"

part_code: "170"

part_subject: "FOOD ADDITIVES"

subpart_code: "E"

subpart_subject: "Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) Notice"

section_number: "170.205"

section_subject: "Opportunity to submit a GRAS notice."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 170.205"

title_name: "Title 21"

title_subject: "Food and Drugs"

parts_covered: "Parts 170 to 199"

revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"

publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"

contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"

publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"

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Any person may notify FDA of a view that a substance is not subject to the premarket approval requirements of section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act based on that person's conclusion that the substance is GRAS under the conditions of its intended use.

§170.205 - Opportunity to submit a GRAS notice.