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title: "21 CFR §172.430"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-172.430"

title_number: "21"

volume_number: "3"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "B"

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: "E"

subpart_subject: "Anticaking Agents"

section_number: "172.430"

section_subject: "Iron ammonium citrate."

cfr_reference: "21 CFR 172.430"

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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Iron ammonium citrate may be safely used in food in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:

(a)The additive is the chemical green ferric ammonium citrate.

(b)The additive is used, or intended for use as an anticaking agent in salt for human consumption so that the level of iron ammonium citrate does not exceed 25 parts per million (0.0025 percent) in the finished salt.

(c)To assure safe use of the additive the label or labeling of the additive shall bear, in addition to the other information required by the Act:

(1)The name of the additive.

(2)Adequate directions to provide a final product that complies with the limitations prescribed in paragraph (b) of this section.

§172.430 - Iron ammonium citrate.