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: "170.285"
section_subject: "Disposition of pending GRAS affirmation petitions."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 170.285"
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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Because the procedure to submit a GRAS notice is replacing the former process to submit a GRAS affirmation petition, the following will happen to a filed GRAS affirmation petition that is pending on October 17, 2016.
(a)On October 17, 2016, we will close the docket for any GRAS affirmation petition that is still pending as of October 17, 2016.
(b)Any person who submitted a GRAS affirmation petition described in this section may submit a GRAS notice as described in this subpart and request that we incorporate the GRAS affirmation petition as described in § 170.215.