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: "172.145"
section_subject: "Heptylparaben."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 172.145"
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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(a)The food additive heptylparaben is the chemical n-heptyl p-hydroxybenzoate.
(b)It may be safely used to inhibit microbiological spoilage in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:
(1)In fermented malt beverages in amounts not to exceed 12 parts per million.
(2)In noncarbonated soft drinks and fruit-based beverages in amounts not to exceed 20 parts per million, when standards of identity established under section 401 of the Act (21 U.S.C. 341) do not preclude such use.