subchapter_subject: "FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (CONTINUED)"
part_code: "172"
part_subject: "FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED FOR DIRECT ADDITION TO FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Food Preservatives"
section_number: "172.120"
section_subject: "Calcium disodium EDTA."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 172.120"
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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The food additive calcium disodium EDTA (calcium disodium ethylene-diaminetetraacetate) may be safely used in designated foods for the purposes and in accordance with the conditions prescribed, as follows:
(a)The additive contains a minimum of 99 percent by weight of either the dihydrate C10H12O8N2CaNa2·2H2O or the trihydrate C10H12O8N2CaNa2·3H2O, or any mixture of the two.
(1)Alone, in the following foods at not to exceed the levels prescribed, calculated as the anhydrous compound:
(2)With disodium EDTA (disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate) in the following foods at not to exceed, in combination, the levels prescribed, calculated as anhydrous C10H12O8N2CaNa2:
(1)The label and labeling of the additive container shall bear, in addition to the other information required by the Act, the name of the additive.
(2)The label or labeling of the additive container shall bear adequate use directions to provide a final food product that complies with the limitations provided in paragraph (b) of this section.
(d)In the standardized foods listed in paragraph (b) of this section, the additives are used only in compliance with the applicable standards of identity for such foods.