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: "H"
subpart_subject: "Other Specific Usage Additives"
section_number: "172.720"
section_subject: "Calcium lactobionate."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 172.720"
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 lactobionate may be safely used in food in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:
(a)The food additive is the calcium salt of lactobionic acid (4-(β,D-galactosido)-D-gluconic acid) produced by the oxidation of lactose.
(b)It is used or intended for use as a firming agent in dry pudding mixes at a level not greater than that required to accomplish the intended effect.