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: "170.245"
section_subject: "Part 5 of a GRAS notice: Experience based on common use in food before 1958."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 170.245"
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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If the statutory basis for your conclusion of GRAS status is through experience based on common use in food, in Part 5 of your GRAS notice you must include evidence of a substantial history of consumption of the notified substance for food use by a significant number of consumers prior to January 1, 1958.